Journal Impact Factor Shapes Scientists’ Reward Signal in the Prospect of Publication

• Frieder Michel Paulus ,

  * E-mail: krach@snl.uni-luebeck.de (SK); paulus@snl.uni-luebeck.de (FMP)

  Affiliation Social Neuroscience Lab, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

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• Lena Rademacher,

  Affiliation Social Neuroscience Lab, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

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• Theo Alexander Jose Schäfer,

  Affiliation Social Neuroscience Lab, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

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• Laura Müller-Pinzler,

  Affiliation Social Neuroscience Lab, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

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• Sören Krach

  * E-mail: krach@snl.uni-luebeck.de (SK); paulus@snl.uni-luebeck.de (FMP)

  Affiliation Social Neuroscience Lab, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

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