# kaal:claim:3808852-003

**Claim.** Journal publication incentives systematically bias the scientific record: journals prefer papers that reject the null hypothesis, use big datasets, and show big effect sizes, so significant findings failing those criteria may simply be ignored.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- applies to ranked scientific journals as the dominant publication channel

**Source quote.**

> Scientific journals typically prefer to publish papers that reject the null hypothesis, use big datasets, and demonstrate big effect sizes. Significant findings that do not meet these criteria may simply be ignored.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralization and Feedback Effects* (2021), II. Decentralization of Science, page 4

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization and Feedback Effects (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808852

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `31e91158fdeefebc2f0be54ebf89751f7cdd4c89ecea932888f5ba9be6b1caba` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202021%20-%20Decentralization%20and%20Feedback%20Effects.pdf

**Failure mode.** publication selection bias  (family: sample-and-selection-bias)

**Topics.** decentralization

**Keywords.** publication-bias, scientific-journals, null-hypothesis, science-centralization

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