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New Study: ‘Publish or perish’ factor in spiraling retractions

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Tom Johnson

New Study: ‘Publish or perish’ factor in spiraling retractions

fyi

http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/08/19/new-study-publish-or-perish-factor-in-spiralling-retractions/

-tj

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Pamela McCorduck

Re: New Study: ‘Publish or perish’ factor in spiraling retractions

Tom, very interesting. Not surprising, but very interesting.

On Aug 20, 2009, at 12:13 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:

fyi

http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/08/19/new-study-publish-or-perish-factor-in-spiralling-retractions/

-tj

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Eric Charles

Re: New Study: ‘Publish or perish’ factor in spiraling retractions

In reply to this post by Tom Johnson

Interesting,
I am reminded of the talk surrounding Cronkite's death. Certainly the number of retracted news reports has increased much more quickly than the retraction of academic reports. However, it is also much harder to demonstrate the inaccuracy of a scientific publication. Both phenomenon may be symptomatic of an attitude change towards the dissemination of information. Among other things, most evaluators of both reporters and academics share an unhealthy obsession with first reports, with quantity over quality, and with "sexyness" over other measures of importance or accuracy.

Eric

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 02:13 PM, Tom Johnson <[hidden email]> wrote:

fyi

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Eric Charles

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Penn State University
Altoona, PA 16601

Tom Johnson

Re: New Study: ‘Publish or perish’ factor in spiraling retractions

An additional factor surely must be tools like http://turnitin.com/static/index.html

That said, I do not know of a single newspaper or magazine in the U.S. that uses something like this on a regular basis. Actually, relatively few professors use them, too.

-tj

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:47 PM, ERIC P. CHARLES <[hidden email]> wrote:

Interesting,
I am reminded of the talk surrounding Cronkite's death. Certainly the number of retracted news reports has increased much more quickly than the retraction of academic reports. However, it is also much harder to demonstrate the inaccuracy of a scientific publication. Both phenomenon may be symptomatic of an attitude change towards the dissemination of information. Among other things, most evaluators of both reporters and academics share an unhealthy obsession with first reports, with quantity over quality, and with "sexyness" over other measures of importance or accuracy.

Eric

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 02:13 PM, Tom Johnson <[hidden email]> wrote:

fyi

http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/08/19/new-study-publish-or-perish-factor-in-spiralling-retractions/

-tj

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Eric Charles

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Assistant Professor of Psychology
Penn State University
Altoona, PA 16601

Eric Charles

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Assistant Professor of Psychology
Penn State University
Altoona, PA 16601
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