"respectable journal" is a correct and usable term in written English.
You might use it when referring to a scholarly journal that is well known in its field and highly regarded by experts in the research area. For example, "This study was published in a respectable journal within the field of psychology."
Have hundreds tried it in a comparison study with other diets and have the results been published in a respectable journal?
That most respectable journal, British Birds, reported in 1987 the case of a feral rock dove (more commonly known as the pigeon) run over at a traffic crossing in Settle, north Yorkshire, on June 23 1983.
Along the way I learned a lot about cell culture techniques, published a paper in a respectable journal, and finished my Ph.D.
There is currently a very respectable journal called Rejuvenation Research (previously named the Journal of Anti-Aging Medicine) whose title takes that position.
Our Full Length Paper, entitled "Low appendicular muscle mass influences femoral neck bone mineral density loss in postmenopausal women", submitted to this respectable journal was carried with grants.
A wrong mathematical result published in a respectable journal, if left unchallenged, is usually accepted by young research workers as gospel.
All are backed up by one or more clinical studies published in respectable journals.
"It is disheartening how many times the same mistake can be made in science and published in respectable journals," he said.
Something similar was true of Mr. Buckley, who founded National Review in 1955, partly because he could not place his work in the respectable journals of the day, so many of them edited by liberals repelled by this provocateur.
As the papers in ersatz journals multiply, so do those papers published in perfectly legitimate and respectable journals, creating their own complications for the research community.
Furthermore, while my publication record is solid—I have a reasonable number of publications in very respectable journals, including several first-author publications none of my papers are in Cell, Nature, or Science.
