OK so I'm a layman and I've always been told that peer review is key to knowing whether a thing is trustable. Can someone explain >
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Academic capitalism is bad, but impact factor does serve its use. Another benchmark is openness. Did a study make a preprint/data available
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And was that preprint/were those data publicly reviewable, e.g. not limited to a gated cadre of chosen reviewers? That's good if so.
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Do the authors have legitimate reputations in their field? Amateur serendipity is very rare. Definitely things to look in to.
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