Psychological science from 'publish or perish' to 'trust but verify'

Publish or perish, publish and perish.

Aiming the internationalization, BDS intensifies actions for establishing multidisciplinary partnerships, for searching institutional support, and for educating the national scientific community about the importance of valuing national science. The media for exposing this knowledge must be a national media. Publishing quality Brazilian science in national journals using international language m...

Publish or perish?

Publish or perish

When scientists bemoan the relentless pressure to publish or perish, they rarely spare a thought for the effect of this pressure on the publisher. For some reason, the publisher, and minions such as editors, are blamed for being the main barrier to the process of publication. At the same time, publishers are blamed for the ridiculous proliferation in journals of all kinds, especially those that...

Modelling science trustworthiness under publish or perish pressure

Scientific publication is immensely important to the scientific endeavour. There is, however, concern that rewarding scientists chiefly on publication creates a perverse incentive, allowing careless and fraudulent conduct to thrive, compounded by the predisposition of top-tier journals towards novel, positive findings rather than investigations confirming null hypothesis. This potentially compo...

Modeling science trustworthiness under publish or perish pressure

The scientific endeavor pivots on the accurate reporting of experimental and theoretical findings, and consequently scientific publication is immensely important. As the number of active scientists continues to increase, there is concern that rewarding scientists chiefly on publication creates a perverse incentive where careless and fraudulent research can thrive. This is compounded by the pred...