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Do you happen to have any fun examples? More for chuckles than anything, I do enjoy reading bogus papers and seeing if I could figure it out.

idkwhatiamdoing 2y ago
Not the person you ask, but I have to think about this one (PNAS is pretty much a Science/Nature level journal impact wise). https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2202224119 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2202224119
- PaulHoule 2y ago
  A long time ago I got a paper with my name on it in PNAS because a professor I knew had been invited to submit one as part of a conference (bypassing the usual peer review) so I got together with another prof and a student and we smashed together a few student research projects into https://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0312018 https://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0312018 which I think is a good paper from the viewpoint of "correctness" but on another level isn't a normal research paper as it isn't about one project. A lot of weird stuff goes on like this in academic publishing. When I was studying physics I got invited to present at a CS conference on Java in academic computing and didn't really understand the opportunity I would have had to have gotten a paper published pretty easily based on my attendance (e.g. really connections, I knew people who knew Geoff Fox who was organizing it)
PaulHoule 2y ago
Here's one https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00976-y https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00976-y My claim is that Molbio folks see the world like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_of_the_World_from_9th_Avenue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_of_the_World_from_9th_Ave... where you replace "Manhattan" with "Molecular Biology" so something in another field is going to have to really stand out (be outrageous) otherwise the reviewer will say "This isn't important enough for Science, maybe they should consider submitting the paper to Physical Review Letters instead.”

idkwhatiamdoing 2y ago

Not the person you ask, but I have to think about this one (PNAS is pretty much a Science/Nature level journal impact wise). https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2202224119 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2202224119

PaulHoule 2y ago
A long time ago I got a paper with my name on it in PNAS because a professor I knew had been invited to submit one as part of a conference (bypassing the usual peer review) so I got together with another prof and a student and we smashed together a few student research projects into https://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0312018 https://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0312018 which I think is a good paper from the viewpoint of "correctness" but on another level isn't a normal research paper as it isn't about one project. A lot of weird stuff goes on like this in academic publishing. When I was studying physics I got invited to present at a CS conference on Java in academic computing and didn't really understand the opportunity I would have had to have gotten a paper published pretty easily based on my attendance (e.g. really connections, I knew people who knew Geoff Fox who was organizing it)

PaulHoule 2y ago

Here's one https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00976-y https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00976-y My claim is that Molbio folks see the world like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_of_the_World_from_9th_Avenue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_of_the_World_from_9th_Ave... where you replace "Manhattan" with "Molecular Biology" so something in another field is going to have to really stand out (be outrageous) otherwise the reviewer will say "This isn't important enough for Science, maybe they should consider submitting the paper to Physical Review Letters instead.”