<div dir="auto">Thanks, Russell. You are a man of great patience.<div dir="auto"><br><div dir="auto">As a freelance journalist, who only writes for money, I long ago gave up on the idea of only pitching story ideas to one editor at a time. Depending on the topic and time factor, three to five query letters sent at the same time were not unusual. First editor to bite gets the story, and the size of checks did not vary much. Ah, but that was in the good old days when ink-on-paper publishing was viable.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">All the best to you in the new year. </div><div dir="auto">Tom </div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 27, 2019, 4:41 AM Russell Standish <<a href="mailto:lists@hpcoders.com.au">lists@hpcoders.com.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">My own experience of one of those infamous journals:<br>
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On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 10:00:11PM +0200, Tom Johnson wrote:<br>
> Perhaps of interest. <br>
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> <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03759-y" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03759-y</a><br>
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> Predatory journals: no definition, no defence<br>
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> Leading scholars and publishers from ten countries have agreed a definition of<br>
> predatory publishing that can protect scholarship. It took 12 hours of<br>
> discussion, 18 questions and 3 rounds to reach.<br>
> TJ <br>
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