Researchers are willing to trade their results for journal prestige: results from a discrete choice experiment
Natalia Gonzalez Bohorquez,
Sucharitha Weerasuriya,
David Brain
et al.
Abstract:The research community's fixation on journal prestige is harming research quality, as some researchers focus on where to publish instead of what. We examined researchers' publication preferences using a discrete choice experiment in a cross-sectional survey of international health and medical researchers. We asked researchers to consider two hypothetical journals and decide which they would prefer. The hypothetical journals varied in their impact factor, formatting requirements, speed of peer review, helpfulne… Show more
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