A new replication crisis: Research that is less likely to be true is cited more
I don’t mean to pick on one field in particular, but last year I made the throwaway comment to a FB post “arXiv is the new businesswire”.<p>The number of academic “big shots” (friends of the poster, not of me) who “liked” the comment was a bit alarming.<p>There’s too much incentive for fudging things (depending on your field, either grants or company funding).<p>The degree of fraud in Chinese journals is high and well discussed (as it should be). But apart from a small amount of hand-wringing over “the replication crisis” there is no similar condemnation of the work in the rest of the world.