My New Year’s Resolution – read a research paper every weekday

Re:My New Year’s Resolution – read a research paper every we... by imranq on Thursday December 29, 2016 @01:05PM (#13278842)

I like the idea of scientifically vetting foods, but as you said it might be hard coming up with a balanced viewpoint if you are not considering all the research. Also might be helpful to consider the impact factor of each paper you are citing.

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Re:My New Year’s Resolution – read a research paper every we... by matt4077 on Friday December 30, 2016 @02:57AM (#13283188)

Let me get my smart-ass instinct out of the way first: journals have impact factors, not papers :)

But it doesn't really matter because it's a somewhat-empty vanity-metric anyway. For assessing clinical trials (and aggregating their results) the Cochrane collaboration is probably the gold standard. Here's something I found on their method to evaluate trial quality: http://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d5928

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