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> But a Tuesday New York Times article on the subject contained a fascinating nugget midway through, which could be described as a buried lede (journalese for p
by shusaku 5y ago
> But a Tuesday New York Times article on the subject contained a fascinating nugget midway through, which could be described as a buried lede (journalese for putting the most explosive part of a story in the middle of the piece).
I’m going to come down on the opposite side and say that a garbage journal that nobody reads publishing garbage research for money isn’t news. Though it is certainly a good example of why you shouldn’t believe something just because it is published.
- uniqueuid 5y agoThe American Journal of Health Behavior apparently has an impact factor between 1 and 2, which isn't stellar but also isn't "nobody reads".
- shusaku 5y agoIt’s pretty hard to find a journal with an impact factor below 1 considering how frequently scientists cite their own work. Heck just look at the special edition papers and see how often they cite each other. Edit: but I also don’t want to argue this point too much because impact factor is not a good measure of the quality of a journal
- nabla9 5y agoImpact factor 2 is bad. Nature Scientific Reports has 5-year impact factor ~4.5 and it's very low quality megajournal with tendency to publish junk science. The peer-review is designed to be very low quality (scientific importance is not criteria for example).
- Tenoke 5y agoYeah, they bought it for $50k. It's like complaining about paying for an issue of some 3rd rate magazine.
- uniqueuid 5y agoOkay, but the studies will still end up in meta-analyses and potentially skew results.
- Tenoke 5y agoIt depends. I haven't looked at them but good meta-analyses have rules for what to include that might preclude those studies. Were there even experiments or just general reviews?
- uniqueuid 5y agoIt seems the studies are mostly observational, I didn't see any randomly controlled trial in there.
- paulcole 5y ago> I’m going to come down on the opposite side and say that a garbage journal that nobody reads publishing garbage research for money isn’t news. It’s a test to see what they could get away with. If this wasn’t a story then juul would move up to a non-garbage journal and try again.