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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2020, @11:01PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2020, @11:01PM (#1040547)

    Nah, republicans don't do all that hippy herbal shit. They just over prescribe and send kickbacks

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 24 2020, @08:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 24 2020, @08:02PM (#1041308)

    Well, they push journal "papers" on hydroxychloroquin (or however the hell you spell it) authored by "digital currency entrepreneurs". Now it is some poisonous plant extract by pillow company execs positioned to gain financially. Or maybe you've got a wall to fund? They can help you there too.

    I think one big difference is that perhaps a good deal of the homeopathy journal authors are not self-aware whereas the Republicans know they are grifters.