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Did a Journal Retract Your Paper on Homeopathy? Meet the Journal That Will Publish Your Complaint

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday August 22 2020, @07:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the self-referential dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:

Did a journal retract your paper on homeopathy? Meet the journal that will publish your complaint:

A homeopathy journal that Elsevier dropped in the wake of concerns about excessive self-citation appears to have carved out a new niche for itself: self-pity.

In 2016, Homeopathy lost its slot on Thomson Reuters's (now Clarivate's)  influential journal rankings list after an analysis found that more than 70% of citations in the papers it published were of papers it published. That led Elsevier to cut the journal loose — although it remains in business under the umbrella of Thieme, and has since earned its impact factor back. (For more on why that's important to journals, see this story.)

Part of Homeopathy's mission under new ownership, it seems, is to criticize journals that have spurned its contributors. Well, one journal, anyway.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by looorg on Saturday August 22 2020, @08:42PM (1 child)

    by looorg (578) on Saturday August 22 2020, @08:42PM (#1040520)

    Oh-no! If only they could add some more drops of water into the solution I'm sure the magical healing properties would transfer better ...

    Perhaps they can get together with the Crystal-people and all the other members of anti-science crowd that believe in magical thinking. The pity-party would be a lot more fun then.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 24 2020, @08:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 24 2020, @08:05PM (#1041310)

    All of the self-references makes sense if you think about it: to make your external references more effective, and hence drive a larger impact factor, you need to dilute them with lots and lots of self-references. It's not their fault of Elsevier doesn't recognize this.