From: Ken Masters <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:49:43 +0400

Hi All

I wonder if people on this list have had a chance to see the article
by Brembs and Munafò at:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1301.3748v1

Among some of the points they make in their paper deals with the
"decline effect" which leads to the state in which "higher ranking
journals are also more likely to publish fraudulent work than lower
ranking journals."  Even if not fraudulent, particularly worrying is
the low reproducibility of findings in these high impact journals.

Regards

Ken

Dr. Ken Masters
Asst. Professor: Medical Informatics
Medical Education Unit
College of Medicine & Health Sciences
Sultan Qaboos University
Sultanate of Oman
E-i-C: The Internet Journal of Medical Education