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Seems like a fine paper, apart from the terrible editing, which is Nature's fault and not the authors'. Nature must have no professional editors on staff. What
by Blahah 6y ago
Seems like a fine paper, apart from the terrible editing, which is Nature's fault and not the authors'.
Nature must have no professional editors on staff. What's the point of paying to publish there if you don't get the professional services? And what the hell are they doing?
Just publish somewhere that has always made all papers free to access and publish. Especially for COVID-19 research. We've always needed better and it's just painfully obvious now.
- pjscott 6y agoThis was published in an open-access journal called "Scientific Reports", one of many Nature-run-but-not-Nature journals currently diluting their brand. I'm not sure if the domain name confusion is deliberate or not. https://www.nature.com/srep/about https://www.nature.com/srep/about
- Blahah 6y agoI am aware. Scientific reports is supposed to have a professional editorial process, and is rather expensive to publish in. Its entire premise is to capitalise on the Nature brand whilst riding the open access train. I think it's a big bag of crap personally. You're paying for the reputation. Without any editorial standards the reputation will inevitably decline.