• Margot Robbie@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Your first statement is completely wrong.

    PLOS Biology, the journal this article is published in, is founded in 2003, so hardly a new journal, and has an impact factor of ~9, which means that it IS a prestigious journal.

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      11 months ago

      I’m sure biology publications started 20 years ago. /s

      The impact factor is rather high, I agree, but IF also a statistic that’s often criticized for unreliability.

      I’d take it back if someone in biology tells me their community submit their work there, but otherwise I’d be skeptical. It’s also weird for a 20 year old journal to accept everything biology. Good new journals tend to specialize.

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        11 months ago

        So you are wrong and hand wave to make yourself feel better? You seem like a real winner.