When the study confirms intuition:
"We find that the number of papers cited at least as well as those appearing in high-impact factor journals vastly exceeds the number of papers published in such venues."
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003532
Decades on, academic journals are still useless as indicators of much of anything.
Sadly, citations are also "useless as indicators of much of anything"...
Yes, mostly. Could be much more useful if every article used CiTO:
https://www.sparontologies.net/ontologies/cito
@brembs We should by now have a LOCKSS-compliant, multiple-interface-searchable, free-as-in-beer international database that contains every valid scientific observation ever made along with the assumptions in which it was embedded at the time. That's been the goal since well before I came late to the party in the early 2000s.
It's almost as though somebody was fighting fiercely to keep science communication in its infancy so that they could profit...
