Three intrepid academics perpetrate a giant version of the Sokal Hoax, placing scores of fake papers

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4. But the claim wasn't quite relevant.

The journals weren't the big ones for sociology or political science, but gender studies isn't quite either of those. There's overlap, there's certainly that, but they have come to be quite distinct sorts of things in many ways.

Often minor journals in a field are where a subfield grows to full field-hood; and often minor journals are where issues are raised that may not seem important but grow to importance. (That said, minor journals are usually where a lot of lesser research gets published. Publications in those journals may not get you tenure at the "Ivies" but may go a long way to get you tenure at a lot of state schools or smaller schools.)