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The killer quote! Prestigious institutions and prestigious journals drive irreproducibility in the life sciences - well, at least in this particular sample.

biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20…

#reproducibility #impactfactor

Previous work has suggested journal rank as a major associate of irreproducibility (Brembs et al., 2013), and that high-impact journals favour authors from leading institutions (Kulal et al., 2025). Our study highlights how university ranking is among the most striking correlates of irreproducibility. Taken together, the cause and effect relationship at play here may be driven most by factors associated with institutional prestige, such as trust among networks of colleagues that act as editors and reviewers, leading to greater acceptance rates at high-impact journals. Importantly, our results suggest this greater acceptance does not strictly reflect a high quality of the work being published, but rather a willingness to trust irreproducible work more frequently if it comes from a prestigious institute.

A retrospective analysis of 400 publications reveals patterns of irreproducibility across an entire life sciences research field

The ReproSci project retrospectively analyzed the reproducibility of 1006 claims from 400 papers published between 1959 and 2011 in the field of Drosophila immunity.
bioRxiv
#reproducibility #impactfactor

Over 100 organisations still consider eLife papers when evaluating research contributions since losing our Impact Factor: elifesciences.org/inside-elife…

Help us rally more community support for research reform and let us know your funder or institution’s stance on the #ImpactFactor 💬

95% still consider E life papers in funding and hiring decisions

Research organisations still consider eLife papers in funding and hiring decisions

We’ve just announced that more than 100 funders and institutions combined continue to consider eLife papers when evaluating research contributions – regardless of our Impact Factor loss last year.
eLife
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Analysis of 10k peer reviews reveals that those for high-#ImpactFactor #journals pay more attention to Materials/Methods but less to Presentation/Reporting (those for low-#JIF journals emphasize solutions) @annasvrn @eggersnsf @ste_mueller &co #PLOSBiology plos.io/45tDVzz

Relationship between journal impact factor and the thoroughness and helpfulness of peer reviews

An analysis of the content of 10,000 peer review reports reveals that reports submitted to journals with higher impact factors pay more attention to the materials and methods of a study but less attention to presentation and reporting, whereas journa…
plos.io
#plosbiology #journals #jif #impactfactor

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