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> I feel like only the highest profile journals can be trusted at this point. The highest profile journals (Nature, Science, The Lancet in medicine, ...) have
by sampo 5y ago
> I feel like only the highest profile journals can be trusted at this point.
The highest profile journals (Nature, Science, The Lancet in medicine, ...) have some tendency to go for sensationalism. They want to publish radical, ground-breaking research more than there is actual new ground-breaking results happening. So they also end up publishing mediocre research presented as ground-breaking, and some less-than-accurate research where results are exaggerated to make them look ground-breaking.
- Animats 5y agoUm, yes. "Nature" used to have a great reputation. Supposedly it still does in bio. But battery articles in Nature are just awful. They keep blowing up "minor advance in surface chemistry" into "10x better battery that costs 10x less Real Soon Now". (I'd like to see EV World or something else in that space reprint old articles as "1, 5, and 10 years ago in battery hype".)
- petschge 5y agoYeah in my field the general attitude is that Nature isn't all that great. I have heard the phrase "it was published in Nature but might still be right" more than once.