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I haven't read the paper because I consider Frontiers Media a shit-tier publisher. Their acceptance rate is 90%. A few institutions don't consider their papers when judging the performance of researchers. The National Publication Committee of Norway doesn't consider their papers to be "academic".

Sorry for attacking the medium rather than the message. I just feel that more people need to know about the shady practices of Frontiers.

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There are some great Frontiers journals and plenty of amazing papers. Here is some nuance:

“As of 2022, 96 Frontiers journals are listed in the Norwegian Scientific Index, two of which are rated 'Level 2' (top 20% of all journals in the field), and more than 88 journals has been rated "Level 1" (standard). academic journals), 1 journal has a rating of Level X (probably predatory), and 5 have a “Level 0” (non-academic) rating.”

https://academic-accelerator.com/encyclopedia/frontiers-medi...

I think this particular article doesn’t look credible. And the whole “Opinion” type probably shouldn’t be published in journals, just post your opinion on Twitter.

That being said, I know for a fact that publically funded Norwegian research is published in Frontiers and researchers from Norway do consider those to be real academic journals.

One of the coauthors is a professor of Philosophy specializing in the field of Neurotechnology. Given that an academic journal is at least partly "peer-reviewed" let laymen post their opinions on Twitter and academics on... journals.

Thanks I didn’t know that. I’ve read them with an interest in neuroscience. Can anyone suggest a better alternative

Pretty much anything in elife or nature communications for open access journals, or neuron, nature neuroscience for non open access. You can almost always find biorxiv preprints for closed access pubs too.

You can always check the impact factor of the journal you’re accessing, and their acceptance rate etc… it can give an indication of the credibility of article published, as well as the journal.

Nice to see someone is paying attention.

such prejudice, I really really hope you're not an academic ethicist

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