RE: ORGLIST: Bad Journals?

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From: will jones (willjones46$##$hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Jun 05 2006 - 14:45:54 EDT

Blimey Ken!

That's a pretty bold statement, which will no doubt bring some reviewers out
of the woodwork!! I know there are at least a couple of reviewers from ACS
that are on this list.

Tetrahedron Letters is the most cited letters journal in chemistry, which
pretty much suggests that something in them is being done elsewhere. I
believe also that Tetrahedron and Tetrahedron Letters are both in the top 3
for being the most cited chemistry journals.

Have they ever tried emailing the people who have done the experiments? Most
journals give NMR in supplemental data, so the final product can be
identified with some certainty.

If I've ever had issues redoing something that has been published, then I
usually think that it's my individual techniques, rather than something has
been misrepresented.

Should be interesting to see what you start up here though!!

Will

>From: "Ken Knott" <esprcorn$##$hotmail.com>
>To: everybody$##$orglist.net
>Subject: ORGLIST: Bad Journals?
>Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 14:11:52 -0400
>
>I have been told by many post-docs in my school that when doing literature
>searches that there are many that should be regarded warily. These include
>Tetrahedron, tetrahedron letters, synthesis, and others. They say that
>these journals do not carefully review the submissions and will publish
>more or less anything. And that the results are often irrepreducible.
>
>What do you all think about this? Are there others you would recommend not
>putting much faith in?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ken
>
>
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