This is a graphic from a paper on ants but it looks like something I drew in a boring meeting.
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@futurebird do you know about contacting the paper 1st author directly to ask for a copy?
People are usually delighted someone wants to read their paper.I have a lot of luck doing this when it's not a big popular journal. In this case I will wait and the pdf will probably show up in time. Or go to the library. I need to go for a bunch of other things anyways.
But this is great if the authors aren't getting spammed because they published in something popular.
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Is "Cell" a good journal?
@futurebird Cell is one of those journals that, if you are in my field (neurobiology) and you publish in it, you will probably get a job. So by conventional standards of academic journals, yes, extremely good.
They've been promoting graphical abstracts for a long time. Usually they are things like diagrams of biochemical signalling pathways or that sort of thing, actually quite helpful. I love what the authors did with this one.
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I'm just asking because there are some "journals" that have websites that look like they are a real journal and they publish ... anything. No standards. I think people just pay them to publish things. And the only way to tell is to look at a lot of papers on the site and check their citations, and that only works if you know the field a little.
The other option is to simply ask some people if the site is any good or not. Ideally people who might know.
Cell has made 9 retractions since 2020 according to
the searchable database atl https://retractionwatch.comRetraction Watch has some interesting tales.
Cell Press won’t retract papers despite one author confessing to fraud
Cell Press journals will not be retracting two papers that were flagged with expressions of concern (EOCs) in April after one author claimed to have manipulated some experiments. In a strange turn of events, as we previously reported, the study’s corresponding author refuted the claims of the author who confessed to fraud, citing concerns about…
Retraction Watch (retractionwatch.com)
Going further back: http://thecostofknowledge.com
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Cell has made 9 retractions since 2020 according to
the searchable database atl https://retractionwatch.comRetraction Watch has some interesting tales.
Cell Press won’t retract papers despite one author confessing to fraud
Cell Press journals will not be retracting two papers that were flagged with expressions of concern (EOCs) in April after one author claimed to have manipulated some experiments. In a strange turn of events, as we previously reported, the study’s corresponding author refuted the claims of the author who confessed to fraud, citing concerns about…
Retraction Watch (retractionwatch.com)
Going further back: http://thecostofknowledge.com
