Placing a paper in a high-impact journal can tilt hiring and promotion decisions, but a large-scale study has found a link between such outlets and lower-quality work.
The analysis compared statistical errors from just over 50,000 behavioural and brain sciences articles and the findings of replication studies with journal impact factors and article-level citation counts.
It found that articles in journals with higher impact factors tended to have lower-quality statistical evidence to support their claims and that their findings were less likely to be replicated by others.
