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A 2020 paper on using jade amulets to cure COVID has had quite some fallout.

Three years on, the first author sued his institution, Pittsburgh, because he said their response was discriminatory: https://retractionwatch.com/2023/08/11/author-of-paper-on-covid-19-and-jade-amulets-sues-employer-for-mental-anguish-discrimination/. He left the same year and has since founded his own institute for "paradigm shifts".

Five years on, this case and other problems led Clarivate to delist the journal, Elsevier's Science of the Total Environment, from the Web of Science. https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-11-28/the-fall-of-a-prolific-science-journal-exposes-the-billion-dollar-profits-of-scientific-publishing.html

#ResearchIntegrity #AbstractingAndIndexing #AcademicJournals #Clarivate #WebOfScience #ScienceOfTheTotalEnvironment

Another paper is with #MethodsInPsychology at #Elsevier submitted in the middle for February.

6 months later and it doesn't even have a second #reviewer yet.

I am an advocate of #SlowScience but that is not what I meant by it :(

#PeerReview #frontiers #science #publishing #frustrating #AcademicJournals #academia #psychology

My paper is now with #frontiersin #psychology for 4 months since submission.
I don't even have reviewers yet :(

I am an advocate of #SlowScience but that is not what I meant by it :(

#PeerReview #frontiers #science #publishing #frustrating #AcademicJournals #academia