Riffing off of @DrRubidium& #39;s thread here with one of my own. https://twitter.com/DrRubidium/status/1299347935461867521">https://twitter.com/DrRubidiu...
We (the royal we ... not just me and some other people) decide what is excellent and what is important to chemistry. A big part of that is how/what we publish in journals. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/authors?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0194903">https://journals.plos.org/plosone/a...
Journals do *some* outreach to communities (thinking of editors traveling to different universities and speaking with grad students, among other things).
But ... in the end, what qualifies as excellent/important doesn& #39;t change in the journal& #39;s eyes.