Abstract:Clegg, Wiggins, and Ostenson, and Trafimow wrote two very different comments on “Publish Less, Read More.” In my reply to Clegg and colleagues, I agree that the inability to predict future success has led funding agencies and hiring committees to rely on social and political selection criteria and to use calculative audits as a proxy for scientific content. I argue that if it is clear that decisions to publish are based on theoretical criteria, and the numbers of publications per researcher decline, their rela… Show more
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