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Prestige does not equal quality: Lack of research quality in high-prestige journals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2020

Tine Köhler ,
Justin A. DeSimone  and
Jeremy L. Schoen
Tine Köhler*
Affiliation:
The University of Melbourne
Justin A. DeSimone
Affiliation:
The University of Alabama
Jeremy L. Schoen
Affiliation:
The University of Auckland
*
*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , September 2020 , pp. 321 - 327
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