I feel this - deep in my bones. Too many authors publish meta-analyses or systematic reviews without the deep thought and insights in field needed to make this work relevant. How can we stop the tide?
I feel this - deep in my bones. Too many authors publish meta-analyses or systematic reviews without the deep thought and insights in field needed to make this work relevant. How can we stop the tide?
@DrvanTilburg As a child psychiatrist and behavioral neuroscientist, I believe the only effective way to stop meaningless publishing is to stop rewarding it. Hopefully, the authors will find other rewarding activities that also benefit humanity. x.com/pash22/status/…
@DrvanTilburg As a child psychiatrist and behavioral neuroscientist, I believe the only effective way to stop meaningless publishing is to stop rewarding it. Hopefully, the authors will find other rewarding activities that also benefit humanity. x.com/pash22/status/…
@DrvanTilburg Good point. Another issue is the number of authors in meta-analyses/simple case reports (12-15 authors) !!
@DrvanTilburg Maybe grad school programs shouldn’t require students to do systematic reviews as prelims… 🙃
@DrvanTilburg And you know what else, Miranda? I think that dealing with the growing number of reviews being published annually is the smallest part of the problem, the biggest problem is the failure of peer review to leave biased reviews, unregistered, with wrong data and +