we need journals to start indicating which articles have been rendered superfluous by more up-to-date research
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
The journals hope this will be taken care of by people publishing "notes" in response to the articles. Problem is, authoring notes is not a road to professional academic success, so it's largely not done.
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Replying to @red3_standingby @QuasLacrimas
What's more, I'm not sure if it should be incumbent upon, or even desirable for, the journal to designate what is the "correct" academic consensus.
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yes and no - to the extent journals can claim competence to do peer review at all, they can also say “this article has everything that article had, plus a lot more”
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @red3_standingby
is it a judgment call? yes, esp in fuzzier cases. but it needs to be done and iiuc, you mean publishing “notes” on article in same journal, which sometimes marked as update, but this unhelpful - in ideal case 1 new article makes several older ones redundant at once
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
Yes, that's what I mean. I'll often hear other graduate students propose a correction to an article and be rebuffed with "that'd make a good note, but don't waste your time on that."
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hopefully some ppl will find a way to “monetize it” (“tenurize”?) the way the princeton psych kids made their careers off the replication crisis
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @red3_standingby
like, a browser app that auto-overlays newer work over superceded articles
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas
Someone who's better at networks and programming than I should make one that, upon scrolling over a paper title/link, lists the top five most cited papers that directly cite the paper in question. That'd at least give context. esp. since most soc science papers don't have 5 cites
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i agree that would be a relatively easy first step but at the end of the day you rly need authoritative judgment about whether X is worth reading / whether Y is still an open question or not
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