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Peer Review and Article Retractions

New study of 260 peer reviews finds that expert and senior reviewers are more likely to identify issues in manuscript submissions that later lead to article retractions.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2023.101423

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Selfish Scientists

Researchers who thought of themselves as “scientists” saw themselves as less warm, fair, cooperative, likeable.

“The reminder of being a member of the scientific community that incentivizes individual gain might make researchers less willing to share their knowledge with peers.”

Altenmüller et al. (2023). Among us: Fear of exploitation, suspiciousness, and social identity predict knowledge hiding among researchers. Social Psychological Bulletin, 18, 1-22.
https://doi.org/10.32872/spb.10011

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Among Us: Fear of Exploitation, Suspiciousness, and Social Identity Predict Knowledge Hiding Among Researchers| Social Psychological Bulletin

Metascience for the Masses

In their recent article, Peterson and Panofsky (2023) question the prospects for a metascience that treats science as a unified enterprise with a singular method.

Peterson, D., & Panofsky, A. (2023). Metascience as a scientific social movement. Minerva.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-023-09490-3

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