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”.The number of academic “big shots” (friends of the poster, not of me) who “liked” the comment was a bit alarming.There’s too much incentive for fudging things (depending on your field, either grants or company funding).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.