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@MISC{Brembs:1018170,
author = {Brembs, Björn},
editor = {Bertuch, Oliver},
othercontributors = {Gonzalez-Marquez, Monica},
title = {{P}restigious journals struggle to reach even average
reliability},
reportid = {FZJ-2023-04610},
year = {2023},
abstract = {The journal in which 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.},
organization = {Jülich Open Science Speaker Series,
Jülich (Germany)},
subtyp = {Invited},
cin = {ZB},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)ZB-20090406},
pnm = {899 - ohne Topic (POF4-899)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-899},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)17},
doi = {10.34734/FZJ-2023-04610},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1018170},
}