 Consequences of POP: biases and emotional damage. Chapter 4 in Publish or Perish, 2024, pp 55-69 from Edward Elgar Publishing Abstract: POP has adverse consequences in terms of biases and the emotional damage inflicted on the victims of POP. These adverse consequences include unreliable and biased research findings, bias against non-mainstream ideas, bias against research from developing and non-English-speaking countries, bias against non-article publications, the adverse effect on teaching and non-research activities, and the psychological and emotional effects of POP, which may lead to suicide and homicide. It has been suggested that, as a result of POP, most published research findings are false or unreliable. Under POP, soundness and reliability of the results matter less than the ultimate objective of getting a paper published, and given the loopholes in the peer review process, papers with faulty results can and do get published, even in top journals. Keywords: Asian Studies; Business and Management; Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Education; Environment; Geography; Innovations and Technology; Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy Research Methods; Sociology and Social Policy; General Academic Interest; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:22117_4 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing |
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