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I am very much in favor of open access, but there is one service that these publishers could definitely provide that would definitely be a value-add: replicatio
by beisner 9y ago
I am very much in favor of open access, but there is one service that these publishers could definitely provide that would definitely be a value-add: replication. I can imagine a prestigious journal or publisher using the money they've collected to sponsor studies that replicate results. I need to think more on how this model could work such that piracy doesn't circumvent it, but I think there is definitely a need for more replication studies and prestigious publishers have an incentive to ensure that their studies are replicable.
- yyyyip 9y agoYou are hopelessly naive if you think for profit publishers would ever do that.
- beisner 9y agoIt's not necessarily a concept relegated to the publishers. Just a potential revenue model for replication.
- Vinnl 9y ago> prestigious publishers have an incentive to ensure that their studies are replicable If only. Prestige (or at least, a high Impact Factor) correlates somewhat with more retractions. Which is relatively straightforward to explain: "prestigious" is where people go with novel, exciting results that have a higher chance to be cited more often, but those are exactly the type of results that have more chance of being inaccurate, exaggerated, and just prone to regression to the mean.