From: Ken Knott (esprcorn$##$hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Jun 05 2006 - 15:25:31 EDT
Definately not trying to provoke a war here by any means... I found their
comments interesting myself. I had seen recently that tetrahedron and
tetrahedron letters had solid impact rating recently as well. I was a bit
suprised by the commentary and I was searching for differing or similar
viewpoints.
I don't know if people are just responding to me specifically or to the list
as well, but I've received a mixed bag of responses thus far.
Anyway, the post-docs and even a professor suggest some journals are
definately better than others. They don't go quite as far as another
professor I know who says commonly, 'Don't trust anything written by the
French.. ' I don't know how much he's joking either... lol
Ken
>From: "will jones" <willjones46$##$hotmail.com>
>To: esprcorn$##$hotmail.com, everybody$##$orglist.net
>Subject: RE: ORGLIST: Bad Journals?
>Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 18:45:54 +0000
>
>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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