20 November 2015

Throwing out the pennies

On not publishing results because they won’t end up in glam journals:

Refusing to release findings that you have already worked on, just because their most likely outlet has low standards, is like throwing all pennies out of your house because having them around make you look cheap.

Giner-Sorolla R. 2012. Science or art? How aesthetic standards grease the way through the publication bottleneck but undermine science. Perspectives on Psychological Science 7(6): 562-571. http://dxd.oi.org/10.1177/1745691612457576

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