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Poor methods which is a result of inadequate data/descriptions being provided by researchers to the publication (also an issue with publications not requiring i
by kayhi 10y ago
Poor methods which is a result of inadequate data/descriptions being provided by researchers to the publication (also an issue with publications not requiring it).
In many of the hard sciences there is not a requirement to list the products used such as chemical reagents or plasticware in a given experiment.
- rspeer 10y agoThe publications don't seem to want adequate data and descriptions. They want papers that have the traditional format and fit in 6-8 pages. Every paragraph you spend on practical details is one less paragraph you can spend on making a good pitch for the relevance of your work, and citing lots of people in "Related Work" so that the reviewer's favorite people are in there. They don't want your code, because that would interfere with the supposedly blind review process. Occasionally, I've seen a submission process that includes a way to submit supplemental data, but it's always extremely half-assed. There's no guidance about what this supplemental data should be beyond "maybe an Excel file or a zip file or something", nobody will ever see it, and if you include too much data it probably gives you an error and maybe even crashes and makes you start over.