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Brian Nosek
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Co-founder of Project Implicit, Society for Improving Psychological Science, and the Center for Open Science; Professor at the University of Virginia

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Brian Arthur Nosek is an American social-cognitive psychologist, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, and the co-founder and director of the Center for Open Science. He also co-founded the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science and Project Implicit. He has been on the faculty of the University of Virginia since 2002. .. more

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 12h
For this cell, I think about papers that tackle an important problem within a field and are recognized for having contributed effectively to that problem.

In metascience, for example, a prototype for me is Scheel, Schijen, & Lakens (2021). 542 citations.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
An Excess of Positive Results: Comparing the Standard Psychology Literature With Registered Reports - Anne M. Scheel, Mitchell R. M. J. Schijen, Daniël Lakens, 2021
Selectively publishing results that support the tested hypotheses (“positive” results) distorts the available evidence for scientific claims. For the past decad...
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 18h
Hu & Bentler (1999) with >130k citations selected for huge citation and moderate actual impact--see Nils' rationale that a lot of citation use is unthinking or to stop thinking.

What then is the prototype of prototypes for the moderate citation impact and moderate actual impact?

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 2d
And there are many interesting email threads too, though those are more idiosyncratic.

Reposted by Brian A. Nosek

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 2d
My Shiny app containing 3530 Open Science blog posts discussing the replication crisis is updated - you can now use the SEARCH box. I fixed it as my new PhD Julia wanted to know who had called open scientists 'Methodological Terrorists' :) shiny.ieis.tue.nl/open_science...
Open Science Blog Browser
Open Science Blog Browser
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 2d
I wonder if that is a more extreme example that belongs in the bottom row?

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 2d
For this cell, I am trying to think of those papers that had an a meaningful impact, but are cited mindlessly or "by tradition" as time passes.

Or, a paper that spurred productive inquiry but was more limited than initially understood, like Steele (1997).

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 2d
This one? www.cell.com/current-biol...

2714 citations, >500 year. Nominated for the moderate actual impact cell or wait for the minimal impact?
Animal Communication: When I’m Calling You, Will You Answer Too?
Male moths compete to arrive first at a female releasing pheromone. A new study reveals that additional pheromone cues released only by younger females may prompt males to avoid them in favor of older...
www.cell.com

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 2d
Do you have an exemplar paper from Hofstede to suggest?

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 2d
"Original paper" may not be quite right as the work was done over a couple of decades, but none of the papers that were published AFAIK were cited much.

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 2d
My original post suggested limiting this to social-behavioral science papers, but Tu's is so perfect for that cell (and got the most votes via likes) that I eliminated that requirement.

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 2d
Youyou Tu's work on anti-malarial compounds that saved millions of lives (w/Nobel+Lasker recognition) wins the low citation/huge impact cell. The original paper has 87 citations as of today: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11721477/ Hopefully she can get to 100.

What for huge citations and moderate impact?

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 3d
That might be ordinary time for Google Scholar’s ingestion but tagging @olsonscholcomm.bsky.social in case there’s something on our side that could be relevant. Thanks for flagging!

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 3d
An off-the-wall example that I love is Schwartz (2008) "The importance of stupidity in research" It does not break scientific ground, but it is a "most shared" work for addressing imposter syndrome. Beautiful paper.

journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 3d
Ah that makes so much more sense! I didn’t understand how it could be THAT low.

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 3d
One of my favorites is the Michelson-Morley experiment (a null result!). Only 173 citations (?!) for effectively ending the search for luminiferous aether and paved the way for relativity.

I can't think of many other field-ending papers, but they can be massively impactful by redirection.

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 3d
*117 years

Reposted by Charles T. Mathewes

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 3d
With 2508 citations in 127 years, Student (1908) introducing the t-test wins for huge actual impact with moderate citation impact: www.jstor.org/stable/23315...

Now, how about huge actual impact and minimal citation impact?

Reposted by Brian A. Nosek

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Eileen Clancy @eileenclancy.bsky.social · 4d
"“Just Noticeable” Differences in Pay: A Systematic Review of Past Accomplishments and Future Opportunities", an Outcomes Report in Lifecycle Journal, is under review with
@researchhubf.bsky.social Check it out if you'd like to be part of the evaluation process! www.researchhub.com/paper/961814...
“Just Noticeable” Differences in Pay: A Systematic Review...
Compensation is of critical importance to organizations. Howev...
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 4d
Incredible thread summarizing Ellis's ruling.

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 4d
everybody be like
a man wearing sunglasses and a suit says this is my time to shine
ALT: a man wearing sunglasses and a suit says this is my time to shine
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 4d
It is defined individually, by each researcher, like all other constructs.

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 4d
Would you say "moderately" cited, given its age?

Reposted by Brian A. Nosek

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Seemay Chou @seemaychou.bsky.social · 4d
We’ve been heads down @ArcadiaScience for a bit but the @arenabioworks news this week caused me to dump thoughts. hard things are hard; don’t be such a fucking hater. Reflections on parallels w our own institutional experiment here seemay.substack.com/p/big-experi...
Big experiments are only big if they can fail
Some reflections on Arena Bioworks' unexpected wind down as a fellow institutional experimentalist
seemay.substack.com

Reposted by Brian A. Nosek, Michael W. Kraus, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò , and 1 more

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 4d
Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis has just taken the bench to rule on federal agents actions' during a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs.
Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social
Judge Set to Rule Thursday in Case Centering on Federal Immigration Agents’ Use of Force: ‘I Could See Inside the Barrel’
Protesters, clergy members and others who say they’ve been directly impacted by a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs will testify before a federal judge weighing wh...
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 4d
That is an amazing example. Is it too high for "minimal citation impact"? Perhaps so -- might be a winner here.

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 4d
Or, maybe too many cites:

Stroop (1935). Studies of interference in serial verbal reactions.

psycnet.apa.org/record/1936-...

28300 citations in 90 years.

This used to be a much better example for moderate or even minimal citations, but citing it surged over the last 20+ years.
APA PsycNet
psycnet.apa.org

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 4d
Perhaps not the best example, but one (book) that occurs to me:

Clark Hull (1952). A behavior system: An introduction to behavior theory concerning the individual organism.

psycnet.apa.org/record/1953-...

3561 citations over >70 years
APA PsycNet
psycnet.apa.org

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 4d
Not to this example’s extreme, but initial stylized demonstrations will usually be low rigor. Might there be opportunity to reinvent intro psych to be grounded more in cumulative knowledge rather than recounting historical (and sometimes problematic) demonstrations?

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 4d
Great one!

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 4d
Tversky & Kahneman (1974) wins for huge citation and actual impact: www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Now, what paper had a moderate citation impact but a huge actual impact?