The top 2 math journals are, in many people's minds, Annals and Inventiones (i.e. Annals of Mathematics and Inventiones Mathematicae). The fact that this work,

The top 2 math journals are, in many people's minds, Annals and Inventiones (i.e. Annals of Mathematics and Inventiones Mathematicae). The fact that this work, which is supposed to be of utmost importance, was not published in one of these two, is not confidence inspiring. That it was published in a journal where the author is chief editor is downright scandalous.