Discussion highlights potential benefits of lower tier journals in publication standards, suggesting better work may emerge despite rigorous criteria of higher-tier journals.
I was reflecting this morning on the following propositions: * Higher-tier (high prestige, high exclusivity) journals, to which most academics submit their work first, often have extremely high thresholds for admission. They require three peer reviewers to agree to publication and they also set exacting (and sometimes flawed) criteria for novelty.
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