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Re:Lesson of ivermectin: meta-analyses based on summary data... by nradov on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @04:28PM (#28621340)
There is no equivalent feedback mechanism in medical research. Other than looking for retracted papers, we don't have a reliable way to quantify whether a particular author is "correct" more often than another.
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Re:Lesson of ivermectin: meta-analyses based on summary data... by antman on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @04:47PM (#28621574)
The author’s Hindex could be an initial weighting factor
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Re:Lesson of ivermectin: meta-analyses based on summary data... by civilized on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @08:08PM (#28623700)
"Initial"? You haven't proposed any way to improve the weighting, so it would just be H index forever. We'd be baking in a cultural presumption that researchers who are more cited are more likely to be correct. A really dystopian prospect.
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