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Re:German universities take on Dutch publishing giant Elsevier by bobcostas55 on Monday August 14, 2017 @07:26AM (#15007909)
>BS can still get through, but it is rare

The data[0] suggests the exact opposite: the more prestigious the journal, the more bad science it attracts.

[0] http://bjoern.brembs.net/2016/01/even-without-retractions-to...

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Re:German universities take on Dutch publishing giant Elsevier by Ar-Curunir on Monday August 14, 2017 @10:47AM (#15008927)
That's possible in a few exceptional cases, but at least in CS, you can see a very visible quality drop as you go from the top conferences to the second-tier conferences.
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Re:German universities take on Dutch publishing giant Elsevier by jtmcmc on Monday August 14, 2017 @02:50PM (#15011401)
That was looking at only a very small part of the curve of journals. There is a long tail of really terrible journals publishing terrible science.
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