ted to the traditional craft of producing tidy, statistically significant stories from inconveniently untidy data that the publishing system still finds deeply attractive. Preregistration, data sharing, Registered Reports, and growing expectations of reproducibility have introduced unwelcome...

How efficiently do scientific results make their way into the wider world? Applying multiple methods to the universe of hypothesis tests reported in three leading health journals between 2016 and 2022 we evidence the important role of statistical significance as a driver of popular attention to...