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My editorial on how journals can earn trust. We often use journal names as proxies for quality. This is bad bc it’s not valid. But it could be. Editors could make journal name a valid signal. And we could place value on journals that show us how they do that. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

8/5/25, 9:25 am43 reposts123 likes

Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏

@tomk.eurosky.social

8 May 2025

Nice! 😊 I hope that the publisher will praise you for this attitude and won't pressure you for accepting more! 🤞 I wish your journal a long life!🚀

Chris Crandall

@chriscrandall.bsky.social

8 May 2025

Publisher? Do you mean the society owner (APS) or the printer/archiver/distributor (Sage)?

Thomas Kesteman🦠🧫🔬🌏

@tomk.eurosky.social

10 May 2025

I meant SAGE. In my small experience as a sleuth, they're not always very quick at correcting (retracting) fraud, so I tend to interpret -maybe overinterpret- it as favouring profits over science...

Chris Crandall

@chriscrandall.bsky.social

10 May 2025

I’ve worked with Sage on a retraction. They were slow and deliberate, and it was frustrating. But they did the job exactingly. I don’t think that the profit motive needs to be terribly at odds with an occasional retraction. They have an infrastructure for processing a retraction.