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OA journals do charge to cover their costs. Some do not peer review & accept almost anything and wind up on lists of predatory journals.
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Cogent is not on any of them & is well-connected & indexed. If you've some reason to think it should be, please share it.
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You cld be right. No red flags being raised in online forums & discussions of OA journals but maybe they shld. Jury is out on its rigour.
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1. If there was a real problem with gender studies journals not being able to tell purposeful nonsense from sincere papers, then they could
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I think being able to spot hoaxes is less important than being able to spot complete nonsense, sincere or not. We know that's a problem.
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Here's the thing: A lot of people claim is "complete nonsense" comes down to ideology. There's a way of testing this: Write a paper that is
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purposely made of pure nonsense and see if it can be accepted by better-than-bottom-of-the-barrel gender studies journals.
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Does this make a substantial difference to accidentally made of pure nonsense?
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