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That's the purpose of peer review.

You don't need some pompous journal for that.

How many Open Source projects are managed by an individual, or a small dedicated group? If they can do it - by self organising! - it's baffling that some of the 'smartest' minds in the world are unable to comprehend what's going on in their field on a meta-level.

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Peer review is supposed to filter out the crassest nonsense (it usually does). What a journal does is grading. When you are reading stuff where you don't know the relevant names personally a good heuristic is the journal. You don't bother with Hindawi and MDPI and just read stuff from the better-known publishers.

We are all very aware of it, but it's not easy to get out of it if the people that pay you measure you based on those metrics. Open access is partially solving the problem though and imposing open access to all publicly funded research seems to me a good compromise.

This is analogous to "use up all your budget, or you'll get less next year!"

A stupid, stupid idea from people who should not be allowed to make decisions.

'Blue collar' workers figured out a way to get the message across - they formed unions, and went on strike to effect changes.

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