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36. Peer reviewed journals vary in quality/impact.

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Highly ranked journals are more difficult to publish in so it is important to look at where particular studies are published and generally one needs to be a little suspicious of studies which appear in journals which don't seem to fit the discipline. This study is a medical study and it is published in the journal Entropy, which is listed as a journal for entropy and information studies. It is an odd fit. And note that Entropy had an impact rating in 2011 of 1.2. In comparison, the New England Journal of Medicine had an impact rating in 2011 of 53.3. Why would someone publish a medical study in a relatively obscure non medical journal? There is really only one reason - it does not rise to the level of even mediocre medical studies. It is "peer reviewed" only in the sense that the reviewers were scientists - it does not appear to have been reviewed by medical researchers. A university tenure committee would probably not see this as a peer reviewed study.