
Re: The Fall of Foolish Faith
Gary S. Gaulin wrote:
Publishing in an average journal is a good way to waste a lot of time then fade away into obscurity.
Publishing in an average journal is good way to get your ideas into the canon of scientific literature. My Master's advisor once told me he likes to publish some of his crazier ideas in minor journals, so that way his ideas are at least out there.
Gary S. Gaulin wrote:
The steady stream of quality hits I get at Planet Source Code are well beyond what I have seen for online papers in a typical science journal.
How do you know? What is a "quality hit?" Your planet source code page has 5 ratings - three 1's and two 5's. It has four comments - three positive and one negative. Which are quality and which are not? How do you know what feedback the authors in "typical science journals" are getting?
If I were a biology student looking for an explanation to some genetics problem I had in front of me... whose work do you think I'm going to 1. find in a database such as Web of Science, and 2. cite in research paper or thesis? Gary S. Gaulin, Journal of X? Or Gary S. Gaulin, lone internet weirdo?