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20 Nov, 15 tweets, 3 min read
"Trust me, citations are not a proxy for quality."

Meanwhile...
washington.edu/news/2020/11/1…
news.wsu.edu/2020/11/20/thr…
huntsvillebusinessjournal.com/news/2020/11/1…
eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2…
indiaeducationdiary.in/unsw-celebrate…
eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2…
researchblog.duke.edu/2020/11/18/mos…
news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1264…
koreabiomed.com/news/articleVi…
miragenews.com/university-of-…
sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/n…
nyu.edu/about/news-pub…
... < list continues with dozens of more press releases like this > ...
And at the end what does this all lead to?

nature.com/articles/d4158…

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So yesterday I received reviews back for one of my papers. The paper received 6 (yes, 6!) reviews. This has never happened before in my career. I was surprised at the number of reviews, given the pandemic and how busy everyone is. Then saw this... 🤔
The reviews were thorough and helpful, and generally positive (some comments were very positive). I was therefore disappointed with the decision (reject). I guess we'll revise the paper and submit elsewhere.
But then the paper will have been reviewed >= 9 times (!) And that is quite something... because the paper has a total of 9 paragraphs... If you do the math, that's 1 reviewer per paragraph...

This is the paper:
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