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Cited does not equal verified. Negative results often go unpublished, yet may be just as important to the working researchers. Until financial rewards are div
by austinjp 11y ago
Cited does not equal verified.
Negative results often go unpublished, yet may be just as important to the working researchers.
Until financial rewards are divorced from citation rates, this will remain a problem.
- walterbell 11y agoWhy is there no market for negative results? It must be cheaper to pay for a paper about what doesn't work, vs. inadvertently repeating a bound-to-fail experiment. One would think that grant funders would insist on a review of known failures, before funding "new" research.
- minthd 11y agoSure , cited doesn't mean verified, you need to read more deeply than that. But if a paper from a reputable source says - "We replicated X", or "X was replicated in Y" , those are useful data points with regard to an article being verified. And if Google understand that and help find that, it's far easier to find verified research, so it makes it more likely that i'll base my research on that , and cite them. And if it's more likely to be cited, maybe more verification work will be done.