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My favorite signal for fields I am unfamiliar with has always been --- => journal declares its ISSN prominently ---- => journal prints its ISSN on eve

• drited 4y ago
  Is the correct interpretation of the minus signs here that you distrust journals that print ISSN on every page more than you distrust journals that print ISSN prominently? Also could you please expand on the thought process behind this heuristic?
  • exmadscientist 4y ago
    > Is the correct interpretation of the minus signs here that you distrust journals that print ISSN on every page more than you distrust journals that print ISSN prominently? Yes. At least, that was how I interpreted the grandparent post's scale and how I tried to match it. > Also could you please expand on the thought process behind this heuristic? Have... have you ever encountered these journals in the wild? They're trash. But they come up in search results because search engines are dumb, and I don't know the "good" journals in every field, so I can't filter them out myself. Until I click. Then I can! Usually what's in them is papers from researchers based in countries that have a publication count score or bonus. They'll take some overcomplicated homework problem and solve it or set up some overcomplicated scenario and show that it has property X or have a few diagrams or photos of their current overcomplicated-senior-project research and show that it will do Y when they finish it. All worthless. There is no insight whatsoever.
    • drited 4y ago
      Interesting thank you!