How much credible and/or overrated are the famous academic journals are they biased to certain universities & scholars due to their funds & PR?

Sinan Ibaguner @Sinan-Ibaguner

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The credibility of a journal may be assessed by examining several key factors:

Where is it indexed? Is the journal included or indexed in the major bibliographic databases for the field?

What is its publishing history? How long has the journal been available? ...

Is it peer-reviewed?

What is its impact factor?

https://libguides.usc.edu.au/credible/journals

https://www.ilovephd.com/top-100-journals-in-the-world-with-impact-factor/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientific_journals

Joseph C Lee

Hello Dr Sinan Ibaguner

I totally agree with your observation about journals. Unfortunately, I have witnessed this problem many times before... some journals seem to publish terrible articles and it seems that they only did so because of the author(s) or institution(s) - or both!

This is an interesting discussion:

Article Reputation or peer review? The role of outliers

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