In a recent letter to Trends in Plant Science, Anurag A. Agrawal [1] outlines his opinions on open access (OA) publishing. In it, he incorrectly conflates OA journals with nonselective journals. Specifically, Agrawal [1] states that ‘a publication in an open access journal only imparts [the information that it is] “not scientifically flawed”’, and later that OA journals provide “no stamp of rigor or potential impact”. Unfortunately this is a common misconception, and we would like to set the record straight: many OA journals are highly selective and high impact.
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机译：在最近写给《植物科学趋势》的一封信中，Anurag A. Agrawal [1]概述了他对开放获取（OA）发布的看法。在其中，他错误地将OA期刊与非选择性期刊混为一谈。具体来说，Agrawal [1]指出：“开放存取期刊中的出版物只会传递[信息，它是“没有科学缺陷的””，后来，OA期刊提供了“没有严格意义或潜在影响的印记”。不幸的是，这是一个普遍的误解，我们想弄清楚这一点：许多OA期刊具有高度的选择性和影响力。
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