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