"Publish or Perish" Promotes Medical Literature Quantity Over Quality.
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.arthro.2018.08.029.
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Abstract
When it comes to medical research, incentives align to promote "publish or perish." This results in quantity over quality. A solution is to change the goal of medical scientist and clinician training from bolstering a curriculum vitae to mastering scientific research methods. In addition, the metric for scholarly authorship should be quality, for which validated measurement tools exist, rather than number of publications.
Medical subject headings
- Authorship
- Biomedical Research
- Publications
- Publishing