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In order to publish in a scientific journal the work needs to be novel. Based on this article, the work doesn’t seem novel... I’d like to see the rejections, m
by new299 8y ago
In order to publish in a scientific journal the work needs to be novel. Based on this article, the work doesn’t seem novel...
I’d like to see the rejections, my guess is they mostly said “this is not novel or unexpected”.
To make the work novel you might suggest a new approach to anonymizing data for example...
- mcguire 8y agoNot novel or unexpected, or "would disrupt everyone's research and make it impossible to publish data"?
- extra88 8y agoI think it was only trivial in hindsight. Scientific publishing is rife with articles the reveal a problem without offering a solution; to expect one seems outright weird.
- mirimir 8y ago> my guess is they mostly said “this is not novel or unexpected”. Well, given how widely vulnerable de-identification was being implemented, that seems unlikely.