This is a common trend in academic journals unfortunately. Journals that accept only highly mathematical, theoretical, and statistics-filled articles have, in m

This is a common trend in academic journals unfortunately. Journals that accept only highly mathematical, theoretical, and statistics-filled articles have, in many disciplines, become the "top" journals, and universities expect their faculty to publish primarily in those journals, which creates a self-sustaining cycle of more and more abstract topics of less and less practical importance. Thus, truly practical research (yes, research) appears in blogs and "low-end" journals, and doesn't get credit. But which articles are actually impacting the general knowledge of humanity in a more positive manner? The technical, mathematical papers have their place, but the separation of academia from the concerns of practitioners is only contributing to the growing consensus among politicians and the public that universities aren't worth subsidizing, that what you learn there is not applicable in the real world, and that college should be transformed into something more like a trade school.