Peer review is supposed to filter out the crassest nonsense (it usually does). What a journal does is grading. When you are reading stuff where you don't know t

Peer review is supposed to filter out the crassest nonsense (it usually does). What a journal does is grading. When you are reading stuff where you don't know the relevant names personally a good heuristic is the journal. You don't bother with Hindawi and MDPI and just read stuff from the better-known publishers.