the gold standard is Nature and other journals - SA is a political but scientific global climate change joke right up there with Nat Geo.
These days there are no ‘gold standard’ journals, including Nature, Science, Cell, etc. They all publish their share of tripe - particularly if he author is ‘known’ and has cache. There have been multiple papers now demonstrating the irreproducibility of results published in ‘top’ journals. I can get you the original articles, but this from Reuter’s gives a decent synopsis.