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Is there an independent verification of the claims made by University of Buckingham researchers?

No. Currently. Google Scholar only finds two citations of this 2013 article. Both are by co-authors of the original article. In fact both citations seem (at least superficially) to be the same article repeated twice with minor variations in title.

The Journal of Cosmology appears in a list of Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals

The journal does not seem to command universal respect for it's standards of peer review:

University of Minnesota biology professor PZ Myers [wrote]

"It isn't a real science journal at all, but is the ginned-up website of a small group of crank academics obsessed with the idea ... that life originated in outer space and simply rained down on Earth," Myers writes on his science blog. "It doesn't exist in print, consists entirely of a crude and ugly website that looks like it was sucked through a wormhole from the 1990s, and publishes lots of empty noise with no substantial editorial restraint."

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Is there an independent verification of the claims made by University of Buckingham researchers?

No. Currently. Google Scholar only finds two citations of this 2013 article. Both are by co-authors of the original article. In fact both citations seem (at least superficially) to be the same article repeated twice with minor variations in title.

The Journal of Cosmology appears in a list of Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals

The journal does not seem to command universal respect for its standards of peer review:

University of Minnesota biology professor PZ Myers [wrote]

"It isn't a real science journal at all, but is the ginned-up website of a small group of crank academics obsessed with the idea ... that life originated in outer space and simply rained down on Earth," Myers writes on his science blog. "It doesn't exist in print, consists entirely of a crude and ugly website that looks like it was sucked through a wormhole from the 1990s, and publishes lots of empty noise with no substantial editorial restraint."

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Is there an independent verification of the claims made by University of Buckingham researchers?

No. Currently. Google Scholar only finds two citations of this 2013 article. Both are by co-authors of the original article. In fact both citations seem (at least superficially) to be the same article repeated twice with minor variations in title.

The Journal of Cosmology appears in a list of Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals

The journal does not seem to command universal respect for it's standards of peer review:

University of Minnesota biology professor PZ Myers [wrote]

"It isn't a real science journal at all, but is the ginned-up website of a small group of crank academics obsessed with the idea ... that life originated in outer space and simply rained down on Earth," Myers writes on his science blog. "It doesn't exist in print, consists entirely of a crude and ugly website that looks like it was sucked through a wormhole from the 1990s, and publishes lots of empty noise with no substantial editorial restraint."

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Is there an independent verification of the claims made by University of Buckingham researchers?

No. Currently. Google Scholar only finds two citations of this 2013 article. Both are by co-authors of the original article. In fact both citations seem (at least superficially) to be the same article repeated twice with minor variations in title.

The Journal of Cosmology appears in a list of Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals

The journal does not seem to command universal respect for it's standards of peer review:

University of Minnesota biology professor PZ Myers [wrote]

"It isn't a real science journal at all, but is the ginned-up website of a small group of crank academics obsessed with the idea ... that life originated in outer space and simply rained down on Earth," Myers writes on his science blog. "It doesn't exist in print, consists entirely of a crude and ugly website that looks like it was sucked through a wormhole from the 1990s, and publishes lots of empty noise with no substantial editorial restraint."

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Is there an independent verification of the claims made by University of Buckingham researchers?

No. Currently. Google Scholar only finds two citations of this 2013 article. Both are by co-authors of the original article. In fact both citations seem (at least superficially) to be the same article repeated twice with minor variations in title.

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The Journal of Cosmology appears in a list of Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals

The journal does not seem to command universal respect for it's standards of peer review:

University of Minnesota biology professor PZ Myers [wrote]

"It isn't a real science journal at all, but is the ginned-up website of a small group of crank academics obsessed with the idea ... that life originated in outer space and simply rained down on Earth," Myers writes on his science blog. "It doesn't exist in print, consists entirely of a crude and ugly website that looks like it was sucked through a wormhole from the 1990s, and publishes lots of empty noise with no substantial editorial restraint."

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Is there an independent verification of the claims made by University of Buckingham researchers?

No. Currently. Google Scholar only finds two citations of this 2013 article. Both are by co-authors of the original article. In fact both citations seem (at least superficially) to be the same article repeated twice with minor variations in title.

The Journal of Cosmology appears in a list of Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals

The journal does not seem to command universal respect for it's standards of peer review:

University of Minnesota biology professor PZ Myers [wrote]

"It isn't a real science journal at all, but is the ginned-up website of a small group of crank academics obsessed with the idea ... that life originated in outer space and simply rained down on Earth," Myers writes on his science blog. "It doesn't exist in print, consists entirely of a crude and ugly website that looks like it was sucked through a wormhole from the 1990s, and publishes lots of empty noise with no substantial editorial restraint."

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