Talk:Disease of despair
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Frontiers in Public Health edit
User:MrOllie and User:EpiDoc2014, I'd like you to reconsider this dispute.
MrOllie is correct that some Frontiers Media journals are sub-par. However, EpiDoc2014 is correct that this is not true for all of them. If you're uncertain about a journal, you need to look up the individual journal – not just rely on "that ham-fisted script highlighted it as needing further review, so I assumed 'actually do the work of looking it up' was a secret code phrase for 'definitely bad'" or "I heard that, years ago, Frontiers wasn't so great, so they must still be bad."
You can look up most medical journals at Scopus. The journal in question is described at https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100798718 What I see there is that the journal's CiteScore puts it in the top half of all medical journals specializing in "Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health" (which is the relevant category for this subject). The journal's website says that the Wikipedia:Impact factors is 2.031, which is well above the magic number of just 1.0 that was promoted for years by some medical editors as a signal of sufficient reputability for MEDRS purposes. The SJR and SNIP scores (which measure prestige and popularity within the field, respectively) are just what you'd expect from a middle-of-the-pack journal.
In short, the journal seems to be fine, and IMO you shouldn't remove it merely because it's one of hundreds published by Frontiers Media. WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:31, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
'Causes' section edit
Added essay-like tag as this section's style is completely unencyclopedic.
Bowwow828 (talk) 23:38, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
- The passages that read like an essay have been removed.--C.J. Griffin (talk) 23:55, 2 May 2022 (UTC)