Data dredging, salami-slicing, and other successful strategies to ensure rejection: Twelve tips on how to not get your paper published

摘要

Everyone talks about "star systems", like professional sports, movies, even airline piloting, (and now more recently the financial industry) where a few at the very top make scads of money, and many at the bottom just scrape by. It seems to me that we in the academy are also players in a variant of a star system, where many try very hard but relatively few succeed. The system is university research, and the currency is publications, not money.