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You have to understand this: Academia runs on clout. Not quality, not replicability, but reputation, however it is earned.

That means that an amazing paper published in PLoS ONE is generally worse for your career than an unreplicable pile of drek in Nature. The quality of the paper, barring notable impact outliers, is secondary to the journal it's published in.




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