Scientific Utopia II. Restructuring Incentives and Practices to Promote Truth Over Publishability

Volume: 7, Issue: 6, Pages: 615 - 631
Published: Nov 1, 2012
Abstract
An academic scientist’s professional success depends on publishing. Publishing norms emphasize novel, positive results. As such, disciplinary incentives encourage design, analysis, and reporting decisions that elicit positive results and ignore negative results. Prior reports demonstrate how these incentives inflate the rate of false effects in published science. When incentives favor novelty over replication, false results persist in the...
Paper Details
Title
Scientific Utopia II. Restructuring Incentives and Practices to Promote Truth Over Publishability
Published Date
Nov 1, 2012
Volume
7
Issue
6
Pages
615 - 631
Citation AnalysisPro
  • Scinapse’s Top 10 Citation Journals & Affiliations graph reveals the quality and authenticity of citations received by a paper.
  • Discover whether citations have been inflated due to self-citations, or if citations include institutional bias.