Report: “‘Journalologists’ Use Scientific Methods to Study Academic Publishing. Is Their Work Improving Science?

From Science:
[A] Chicago, Illinois, meeting [in 1989] marked the birth of what is now sometimes called journalology, a term coined by Stephen Lock, a former editor of The British Medical Journal (The BMJ). Its goal: improving the quality of at least a slice of the scientific record, in part by creating an evidence-based protocol for the path from the design of a study to its publication. That medical journals took a leading role isn’t surprising. A sloppy paper on quantum dots h