The most glamorous journals state on their websites that they want papers that have ‘great potential impact’ (Nature); that are ‘most influential in their fields’ and ‘present novel and broadly important data’ (Science); and that are of ‘unusual significance’ (Cell) or ‘exceptional importance’ (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences).59 Conspicuous by their absence from this list are any words about rigour or replicability – though hats off to the New England Journal of Medicine, the world’s top medical journal, for stating that it’s looking for ‘scientific accuracy, novelty, and
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