We studied higher impact articles, but poor reporting has been found across other journals and study types (Altman, 2007; Kyzas et al, 2007b).
A recent study conducted by the World Bank and the State Council concluded that research quality falls short, scientists publish relatively few high-impact articles, and that the majority of Chinese patents constitute minor tweaks rather than real inventions.
Under Mr. Foer, The New Republic published a string of high-impact articles, including a profile by Ryan Lizza of Senator George Allen of Virginia that was seen as playing a major role in Mr. Allen's political downfall.
This project will conduct replications of findings from 50 high-impact articles in the field of cancer biology published between 2010 and 2012.
For high-impact articles (top 10%%), the bibliometric outputs for the French geographical research areas were also screened manually by author affiliation.
We acknowledge that the reliability and validity are not perfect; however, they provided reasonable measures in a large clinical trial, as published by several of our authors in high-impact articles (14– 14).
However, most articles were published in journals of modest impact factor (median 4.77, IQR 2.83 8.07; 54.1% were published in journals of impact factor <5), with no clear trend for an emergence of a larger proportion of high impact factor articles over time (p = 0.861).
Participants trusted journals with high impact factors, and articles from reputable institutions with experienced authors.
We have identified 50 high impact cancer biology articles published in the period 2010-2012, and plan to replicate a subset of experimental results from each article.
