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Can someone comment on whether these are respectable journals or not, within their fields? Every few years someone will do a Sokal-hoax-esque thing in scientif

Can someone comment on whether these are respectable journals or not, within their fields? Every few years someone will do a Sokal-hoax-esque thing in scientific fields, but usually they're just getting a paper into very-low-quality predatory journals that have only a nominal peer review process. I'm wondering if that's what happened here. Do humanities fields even have the same set of incentives leading to a proliferation of those sorts of journals?

mattnewport 8y ago
"We set out with three basic rules: (1) we’ll focus almost exclusively upon ranked peer-reviewed journals in the field, the higher the better and at the top of their subdisciplines whenever possible; (2) we will not pay to publish any paper; and (3) if we are asked at any point by a journal editor or reviewer (but not a journalist!) if any paper we wrote is an attempted hoax, we will admit it. These rules were meant to ensure that any conclusions we derived from the field came from the field itself, not the unrelated but significant problem that also corrupts academic pursuits: the proliferation of predatory and quasi-predatory journals with extremely low standards. With these rules guiding us, we committed to transparently reporting the results, whether we succeeded or failed." https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studies-and-the-corruption-of-scholarship/ https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studi... I'm not qualified to say if these truly were considered respectable journals in their fields but the authors had that as an explicit aim.
Trombone12 8y ago
Well, they claim to have targeted "top journals" in the field, but it's not like "intersectional gender studies" is a particularly big field. I looked up two journals they had published in and their articles got less than one citation per year typically ([1]&[2]), not exactly a booming field. [1]: https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=145138&tip=sid&clean=0 https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=145138&tip=sid... [2]: https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=14798&tip=sid&clean=0 https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=14798&tip=sid&...
- emmelaich 8y ago
  > it's not like "intersectional gender studies" is a particularly big field And let's hope it stays that way. This will help.

mattnewport 8y ago

"We set out with three basic rules: (1) we’ll focus almost exclusively upon ranked peer-reviewed journals in the field, the higher the better and at the top of their subdisciplines whenever possible; (2) we will not pay to publish any paper; and (3) if we are asked at any point by a journal editor or reviewer (but not a journalist!) if any paper we wrote is an attempted hoax, we will admit it. These rules were meant to ensure that any conclusions we derived from the field came from the field itself, not the unrelated but significant problem that also corrupts academic pursuits: the proliferation of predatory and quasi-predatory journals with extremely low standards. With these rules guiding us, we committed to transparently reporting the results, whether we succeeded or failed." https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studies-and-the-corruption-of-scholarship/ https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studi... I'm not qualified to say if these truly were considered respectable journals in their fields but the authors had that as an explicit aim.

Trombone12 8y ago

Well, they claim to have targeted "top journals" in the field, but it's not like "intersectional gender studies" is a particularly big field. I looked up two journals they had published in and their articles got less than one citation per year typically ([1]&[2]), not exactly a booming field. [1]: https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=145138&tip=sid&clean=0 https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=145138&tip=sid... [2]: https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=14798&tip=sid&clean=0 https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=14798&tip=sid&...

emmelaich 8y ago
> it's not like "intersectional gender studies" is a particularly big field And let's hope it stays that way. This will help.