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umm.. good question. My understanding is this. It really costs almost nothing to start a journal. And the founders and editors of those journals pad their resume with those titles and they basically accept all garbage. As long as PubMed indexes those journals, people will submit garbage in order to claim they are pubmed indexed. The whole process really benefits both parties and therefore you see all the crap being published every second. It's the proliferation of the internet. Before that, the journals had to be physically printed and mailed to subscribers... nowadays it's just like a blog. Well the economics of the journal is that usually the school pays for the publication out of their research budget. I am fine with this arrangement but unfortunately this has spilled out into medical education and residency and fellowship application processes. Some specialties are notoriously EASY to publish... and their journals accept almost anything without major revision.
This is just untrue. Yeah, there are predatory journals that you should avoid, but most journals still care about their stats. If your article is trash and unlikely to garner any attention/contribution from the scientific community, it’s much less likely to be accepted even at open access journals.