"I think one of the things that often goes wrong on a J.O.A. is when there is a stronger paper and a weaker paper, you usually get to the point where the stronger paper is not supporting the weaker paper in terms of circulation and advertising".
Torvalds has repeatedly complained that its system for code annotations is too lax; the site may be training an entire generation of coders to leave behind weaker paper trails than truly complex software requires.
Some applicants with weaker paper credentials have more ability to triumph over adversity, and to keep going when the going gets tough, because they have already learned to do so.
This will keep the force on the tack rather than the much weaker paper the poster is printed on.
In recent years, the Newspaper Preservation Act has done precisely the opposite of its framers' intention, allowing joint operating agreements that let weak papers linger and pull down the alpha papers in Detroit, Seattle, Denver and Tucson.
There is general agreement that an overwhelming majority of "weak" papers will survive initial rejections to find acceptance somewhere among the thousands of medical and scientific journals that each year publish an estimated two million new research articles, mostly paid for by the public through government grants.
But a new analysis has found that many of the weak papers in predatory journals are coming from top-flight Indian research institutions.
In the event, very few papers – approximately 20 – were excluded on grounds of being "fatally flawed", because even weak papers were often judged to have potentially high relevance.
Others propose that weak papers should be excluded from the review altogether, and several published syntheses of qualitative research have indeed used quality criteria to make decisions about excluding papers.
Thus, in our review, some methodologically weak papers were important in terms of their theoretical contribution, or in terms of demonstrating the breadth of evidence considered in the construction of particular categories, or in terms of providing a more comprehensive summary of the evidence, while a single strong paper might be pivotal in the development of the synthesis.
