{"id":24704,"date":"2025-02-26T18:05:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T16:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=24704"},"modified":"2025-03-06T13:08:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T11:08:04","slug":"research-has-become-a-game-of-publication-and-not-of-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2025\/02\/research-has-become-a-game-of-publication-and-not-of-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Research has become a game of publication and not of science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is quote from Gelman and King in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/social-science-is-broken-heres-how-to-fix-it\">Chronicle<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The publication process in social science is broken. Articles in prestigious journals use flawed data, employ questionable research practices, and reach illogical conclusions. Sometimes doubts over research become public, such as in the case of honesty scholar Francesca Gino, but most of the time research malpractice goes unacknowledged and uncorrected. Yet scholars know it is there, hiding below the surface, leading to frustration and cynicism. Research \u201chas become a game of publication and not science,\u201d as one professor wrote in response to a survey on research practices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They want a \u201creplay review\u201d like in professional sports.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Once a publication receives a specified number of citations, it would receive an independent review. These reviews would then be published in full, along with author responses, so that readers have additional guidance on how to interpret the initial publication.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is an interesting idea &#8211; basically a mandatory PubPeer review&#8230;<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 06.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is quote from Gelman and King in the Chronicle The publication process in social science is broken. Articles in prestigious journals use flawed data, employ questionable research practices, and reach illogical conclusions. Sometimes doubts over research become public, such as in the case of honesty scholar Francesca Gino, but most of the time research &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2025\/02\/research-has-become-a-game-of-publication-and-not-of-science\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Research has become a game of publication and not of science<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-note-worthy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24704"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24760,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24704\/revisions\/24760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}