[gus_massa]

> I repeat: Every rejected paper will eventually be published somewhere. Perhaps not in Nature, or Top Journal A, but it will appear in Respectable Journal B or Mediocre Journal C. And it will bare the seal of "peer reviewed".

I agree, but I dont know if it'a a bug or a feature. We had one paper that took a while to get published.

I prefer to use "peer reviewed and published in a good journal" where I'm not sure if "good" means A, B or C in your scale. But there are also D, E, F, G, ... depending on how finely you want to clasify the crap and predatory journals.

The problem is that outside my area, I really don't know which journals are good and which journals are bad. One of my criteria to not send the journal to the Z slot is if I recognize the publisher of the journal. Sometimes the impact index is useful, but it changes too much from area to area. I take a look at the other papers in the same jorunal. Too many single author papers or too many unrelated topics are red flags.

At the end of the day, for research or for posting angry comments in HN, the only solution is to RTFA. I read the abstract, skip the introduction that is usually too optimisitc, and go directlry to the tables and graphics. I learned that Ctrl+F "exclusions" is important in medicine, becuase I've seen weird methods to filter the patients.