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Oransky says publish-or-perish incentives flood medical literature with junk
Original: "If medical schools and universities don't want the literature to be overwhelmed with garbage," Oransky said, "then they
Ivan Oransky, co-founder of Retraction Watch, argues that medical schools and universities are themselves to blame for junk science filling academic journals. He says admissions processes that reward applicants for publications give students an incentive to publish large volumes of low-quality research, overwhelming the medical literature with what he calls garbage.
Why now: Debate over research quality incentives in academic medicine is drawing renewed attention
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