Religion
In reply to the discussion: Sociologists study the impact religion has on child development [View all]Major Nikon
(36,911 posts)The principal author is a professor at a UT satellite institution and has recently worked his way up from an even smaller college. He appears to make a bit of money on the side publishing about the merits of evangelicalism, which suggests a significant bias on the subject matter.
One can guess the same uncommon last name of the two authors suggest they are related, probably brothers, and the 3rd author works in the same department as the principal author. Kinda makes you go, hmmm.
Then you look up the journal in question and discover it's an obscure journal to unread to even have an impact factor from a notorious pay-for-play publisher with virtually no credibility due to a peer review process which is little more than a sausage factory that pumps out pseudo-science for $200-300 a pop.