Prestigious Science Journals Struggle to Reach Even Average Reliability.
Prestigious Science Journals Struggle to Reach Even Average Reliability.
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DOI：
10.3389/fnhum.2018.00037
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Brembs B
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文献类型：
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作者：
Brembs B
科学家发表的期刊被认为是决定其职业生涯的最关键因素之一。潜在的普遍假设是，只有最优秀的科学家才能在最负盛名的期刊上发表文章。然而，来自几条证据线的数据表明，科学实验的方法学质量并没有随着期刊排名的增加而提高。相反，越来越多的证据表明，情况正好相反：在一些领域，发表的研究成果的方法质量和可靠性可能会随着期刊排名的提高而下降。支持这些结论的数据避开了诸如这些期刊的读者增加和审查等混淆因素，而是将重点放在已发表文献中方法合理性的量化指标上，部分依赖于一次从通常数千份出版物中半自动提取的数据。随着过去十年积累的证据越来越多，人们意识到，学术期刊的存在，由于其固有的等级制度，构成了公共资助科学的主要威胁之一：雇用、提拔和资助发表不可靠科学的科学家，最终会侵蚀公众对科学的信任。
In which journal a scientist publishes is considered one of the most crucial factors determining their career. The underlying common assumption is that only the best scientists manage to publish in a highly selective tier of the most prestigious journals. However, data from several lines of evidence suggest that the methodological quality of scientific experiments does not increase with increasing rank of the journal. On the contrary, an accumulating body of evidence suggests the inverse: methodological quality and, consequently, reliability of published research works in several fields may be decreasing with increasing journal rank. The data supporting these conclusions circumvent confounding factors such as increased readership and scrutiny for these journals, focusing instead on quantifiable indicators of methodological soundness in the published literature, relying on, in part, semi-automated data extraction from often thousands of publications at a time. With the accumulating evidence over the last decade grew the realization that the very existence of scholarly journals, due to their inherent hierarchy, constitutes one of the major threats to publicly funded science: hiring, promoting and funding scientists who publish unreliable science eventually erodes public trust in science.
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