Publicações científicas: dá que pensar...

Na newsletter de Outubro da Royal Economic Society, pode-se ler a propósito do processo de publicação científica:

«Peters and Ceci (1982) did a nice experiment. It might not be allowed today. They resubmitted a collection of articles to the same journals that had recently published them. All the journals were distinguished academic research journals in psychology. The articles had originally been written by people from leading universities. When resubmitted, Peters and Ceci took off those authors’ names, and inserted fictitious ones, and gave them fictitious affiliations from unknown universities. What happened? The great majority of these (already published) articles were rejected by the referees. Only in a minority of cases, moreover, was it noticed by reviewers or editors that that paper had actually recently appeared in the same journal.»

No momento em que a investigação científica é apenas reconhecida pelos rankings dos Journals e os financiamentos dependem desses rankings, questiono-me como será possível quebrar ciclos viciosos e dar oportunidade a novos grupos de investigadores?