Key features of the R-Factor
The R-Factor
- could be applied to a single researcher, a journal, or an institution as
- is simple to calculate and easy to understand
- incentivises publishing solid results that are replicable
- can be displayed easily (see below "the Linker")
Critique and rebuttal:
1. Why not doing a Review instead of the R-factor
2. Publication bias and R-Factor
3. claim vs. paper. What can the R-factor assess, what remains impssible.
4. The weight question: Should all follow-up studies considered equal?
5. Simple or simplistic.
Introducing the linker:
R-Factor can be easily displayed and claims/ideas and how they evolved in the literature can be tracked