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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) by driverless on Sunday August 23 2020, @05:21AM (3 children)

    by driverless (4770) on Sunday August 23 2020, @05:21AM (#1040679)

    My favourite pizza has chicken, yoghurt, bananas, coconut, cashews, and roast peach chutney. Not sure which part of Italy that one's from, but it's quite nice.

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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday August 23 2020, @11:18AM

    by Bot (3902) on Sunday August 23 2020, @11:18AM (#1040741) Journal

    > Not sure which part of Italy that one's from

    Simple inference determines, with a high degree of uncertainty, that it might be out of Malagrotta. The biggest dumpster in Italy.

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  • (Score: 2) by Opportunist on Sunday August 23 2020, @04:34PM (1 child)

    by Opportunist (5545) on Sunday August 23 2020, @04:34PM (#1040832)

    That sounds less like a pizza and more like an allergy test.

    • (Score: 2) by driverless on Tuesday August 25 2020, @05:28AM

      by driverless (4770) on Tuesday August 25 2020, @05:28AM (#1041497)

      It's Tandoori chicken pizza, a traditional Italian dish.