{"id":6582,"date":"2014-01-07T13:21:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T12:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=6582"},"modified":"2014-01-07T13:28:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T12:28:11","slug":"value-replicability-not-journal-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2014\/01\/value-replicability-not-journal-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Value replicability not journal impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/24372677\">excellent comment on research misconduct<\/a> at the brand new Pubmed Commons site by Dorothy Bishop:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;<br \/>\nInstead of valuing papers in top journals, we should be valuing research replicability. This would entail a massive change in our culture, but a start has already been made in my discipline of psychology (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/psychologists-strike-a-blow-for-reproducibility-1.14232\">http:\/\/www.nature.com<\/a>).<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8230; The top journals prioritize exciting results over methodological rigour. There is therefore a strong temptation to do post hoc analyses of data until an exciting result emerges. I agree with Farthing that pre-registration of research projects is a good way of dealing with this. I&#8217;m pleased to say that here too, psychology is leading the way in extending research registration beyond the domain of clinical trials (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/impactofsocialsciences\/tag\/registered-reports\/\">http:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/<\/a>).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s the way to go.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 09.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an excellent comment on research misconduct at the brand new Pubmed Commons site by Dorothy Bishop: &#8230; Instead of valuing papers in top journals, we should be valuing research replicability. This would entail a massive change in our culture, but a start has already been made in my discipline of psychology (see http:\/\/www.nature.com). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2014\/01\/value-replicability-not-journal-impact\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Value replicability not journal impact<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582","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=6582"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6588,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582\/revisions\/6588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}