How did we end up in a situation where so many scientific papers do not replicate? One theory, is that the publish-or-perish system is to blame.
This podcast is an audio read through of the (initial version of the) article Publish-or-perish and the Quality of Science, published on New Things Under the Sun.
Articles mentioned
Smaldino, Paul E., and Richard McElreath. 2016. The natural selection of bad science. Royal Society of Open Science 3: 160384. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160384
Hill, Ryan, and Carolyn Stein. 2021. Race to the bottom: competition and quality in science. Working paper.
Partha, Dasgupta and Paul A. David. 1994. Towards a new economics of science. Research Policy 23(5): 487-521. https://doi.org/10.1016/0048-7333(94)01002-1
Bikard,Michaël. 2018. Made in academia: the effect of institutional origin on inventors’ attention to science. Organization Science 29(5): 755-987. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2018.1206