Open AccessSorting the Good from the Bad and the Ugly
Author(s) -
David L. Vaux
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
the biochemist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.126
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1740-1194
pISSN - 0954-982X
DOI - 10.1042/bio03006020
Subject(s) - sorting , quality (philosophy) , flood myth , software , internet privacy , business , advertising , computer science , history , epistemology , philosophy , archaeology , programming language
The single most important factor in determining funding and career prospects remains the number of publications. This creates pressure to exaggerate findings and, coupled with the availability of easy to use imageprocessing software, has produced a flood of scientific publications, but the quality has suffered.
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