{"id":12298,"date":"2023-11-30T11:06:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T16:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12298"},"modified":"2023-11-30T11:06:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T16:06:15","slug":"the-state-of-scientific-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=12298","title":{"rendered":"The state of scientific publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning, like pretty much every morning, there was an invitation in my inbox to submit a paper to a journal that I never heard of previously.<\/p>\n

Though the unsolicited e-mail by itself is often an indication that the journal is bogus, predatory, I try to be fair and give them the benefit of the doubt, especially if the invitation is from a journal that is actually related to my fields of study. (All too often, it is not; I’ve received plenty of invitations from “journals” in the medical, social, biological, etc., sciences, subjects on which I have no professional expertise.)<\/p>\n

So what are the signs that I am looking for? Well, I check what they published recently. That’s usually a good indication of what to expect from a journal.\u00a0So when I read a title that says, say, “Using black holes as rechargeable batteries and nuclear reactors,” I kind of know what to expect.<\/p>\n

Oh wait. That particular paper appears to have been accepted for publication by Physical Review D<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Seriously, what is the world of physics coming to? What is the world of scientific publishing, by and large, coming to?\u00a0Am I being unfair? Just to be sure, I fed the full text of the paper on black hole batteries to GPT-4 Turbo and asked the AI to assess it as a reviewer:<\/p>\n

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This morning, like pretty much every morning, there was an invitation in my inbox to submit a paper to a journal that I never heard of previously. Though the unsolicited e-mail by itself is often an indication that the journal is bogus, predatory, I try to be fair and give them the benefit of the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,3,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybernetics","category-physics","category-science","category-58-id","category-3-id","category-48-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12298"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12303,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12298\/revisions\/12303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}