Instead they find the
most obscure journal or magazine, preferably in a foreign language, and offer the editor a free article which contains the vital details.
«Maybe there are even studies out there that have been published
in obscure journals that we haven't seen.
These contradictory perspectives show that before deciding whether to commit a few years of your life to
reading obscure journals full of six - syllable words, the question has to be asked: Is grad school worth it?
Nakamuras publishing exploits largely escaped the companys notice because he published his research in
fairly obscure journals.
Obscure journals working in controversial areas should therefore enforce rigorous quality standards, while remaining careful not to censor new ideas or limit legitimate scientific debate.
♦ In a not
so obscure journal there is this advertisement: «FOR A VEGETARIAN SEDER: Haggadah for the Liberated Lamb.»
As far as reading goes, time demands mean that postdocs can no longer fritter away half a day in the library
scouring obscure journals as they used to as graduate students.
«I reject the concept that grey literature is unpublished,» says Deni Seymour, who worked in U.S. contract archaeology for more than 25 years and for a decade co-ran the Lone Mountain Archaeological Services in Albuquerque, N.M. Grey literature, she says, «is no less available than
many obscure journals and master's theses.»
Now contrast this with a paper published in July in a fairly
obscure journal by two other respected scholars — Peter Webster and Greg Holland — suggesting that global warming has a huge effect on hurricanes.
The newly released documents show that the dust - up over the Chinese journal echoed a practice Soon engaged in with a variety of
less obscure journals that published his work.
A few observers, writing
in obscure journals, have reported seeing the moth Biston betularia on purple loosestrife in Manitoba.
The paper was published online in 2007 in
the obscure Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health.
Were the monk's findings really unknown for so long because he had published them in
an obscure journal?
Preston Marx, a microbiologist at the Tulane National Primate Research Center in Louisiana and the first author on that paper, says: «It's not like we did our work and it was published in
an obscure journal.
Worse, some studies use procedures that would probably not pass ethical scrutiny in Britain, and the most dramatic claims often appear in unrefereed conference proceedings or
obscure journals.
They, especially those based in universities, too often simply unleash their work via
an obscure journal and sit back waiting for the world to automatically change everything it does accordingly.
We may even have written this up 20 years ago in
some obscure journal.
But Mercer (who, interestingly enough for a glaciologist, liked to do field work in the nude) published his observations in
an obscure journal, and, according to the historian of science Spencer Weart, «did not push his views on colleagues.»
Anybody can say what they like, if they're shouting on a street corner or writing in the pages of
some obscure journal for intellectuals.
do research, publish papers, even if poor ones in
obscure journals, sometimes via friendly editors, with little concern that experts read them.
Global Warming, as an aspect of Climate Change, is not about what will one day become obscure albeit accurate references by individuals with polished prose, in
obscure journals.
If climate change, with near unanimity among environmental scientists that it's at least partially mankind - enabled, still encounters resistance and intractability among the public, it's hard to see how one crummy little study in
an obscure journal about rocks will persuade a state court that fracking and earthquakes are indisputably linked.
Fair enough — the space and financial constraints are universal, and I certainly can't expect the big libraries to keep
an obscure journal on the odd chance that I might, some day, need that article on wage discrimination in China under Mao.