Paul Nightingale
@paulnightingale.bsky.social
Professor of Strategy at SPRU.
Associate Dean of Research, University of Sussex Business School. #1 in UK for research income.
Editor Research Policy.
Acting Director HSP.
Views mine, not my employer. Politics unfashionable since 1654
Associate Dean of Research, University of Sussex Business School. #1 in UK for research income.
Editor Research Policy.
Acting Director HSP.
Views mine, not my employer. Politics unfashionable since 1654
Congratulations. Looks wonderful.
November 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Congratulations. Looks wonderful.
Good journals are swamped with this stuff and lower tier journals struggle to get reviewers who can see through the methods section
It gets cited (a lot!) so editors who should know better let it through.
It gets cited (a lot!) so editors who should know better let it through.
November 21, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Good journals are swamped with this stuff and lower tier journals struggle to get reviewers who can see through the methods section
It gets cited (a lot!) so editors who should know better let it through.
It gets cited (a lot!) so editors who should know better let it through.
I would add.
A) very standardised format
B) section w robustness checks that don't test anything
C) often very well written - AI now but maybe paid team before???
D) odd citation patterns.
E) atypical author connections.
A) very standardised format
B) section w robustness checks that don't test anything
C) often very well written - AI now but maybe paid team before???
D) odd citation patterns.
E) atypical author connections.
November 21, 2025 at 8:41 AM
I would add.
A) very standardised format
B) section w robustness checks that don't test anything
C) often very well written - AI now but maybe paid team before???
D) odd citation patterns.
E) atypical author connections.
A) very standardised format
B) section w robustness checks that don't test anything
C) often very well written - AI now but maybe paid team before???
D) odd citation patterns.
E) atypical author connections.
I'll send it on but it might take a while to double check everything.
It's like that for normal academia but it's catnip for predatory journals.
It's like that for normal academia but it's catnip for predatory journals.
November 21, 2025 at 7:34 AM
I'll send it on but it might take a while to double check everything.
It's like that for normal academia but it's catnip for predatory journals.
It's like that for normal academia but it's catnip for predatory journals.
This is exactly it!
November 21, 2025 at 7:30 AM
This is exactly it!
Reposted by Paul Nightingale
🙋♀️ @paulnightingale.bsky.social me too!
I call it: "The "Nexus" Nexus" 😅
Recipe
🟢 Pick 1 econ var
🟢 Pick 2+ "green" vars
🟢 Pick 3+ methods (unit root, cointegration, Granger causality, GMM, ECM, FMOLS, PMG, PVAR, wavelet)
🟢 Misinterpret results
🟢 Make absurd policy recommendations
Rinse & repeat!
I call it: "The "Nexus" Nexus" 😅
Recipe
🟢 Pick 1 econ var
🟢 Pick 2+ "green" vars
🟢 Pick 3+ methods (unit root, cointegration, Granger causality, GMM, ECM, FMOLS, PMG, PVAR, wavelet)
🟢 Misinterpret results
🟢 Make absurd policy recommendations
Rinse & repeat!
November 21, 2025 at 12:34 AM
🙋♀️ @paulnightingale.bsky.social me too!
I call it: "The "Nexus" Nexus" 😅
Recipe
🟢 Pick 1 econ var
🟢 Pick 2+ "green" vars
🟢 Pick 3+ methods (unit root, cointegration, Granger causality, GMM, ECM, FMOLS, PMG, PVAR, wavelet)
🟢 Misinterpret results
🟢 Make absurd policy recommendations
Rinse & repeat!
I call it: "The "Nexus" Nexus" 😅
Recipe
🟢 Pick 1 econ var
🟢 Pick 2+ "green" vars
🟢 Pick 3+ methods (unit root, cointegration, Granger causality, GMM, ECM, FMOLS, PMG, PVAR, wavelet)
🟢 Misinterpret results
🟢 Make absurd policy recommendations
Rinse & repeat!
"Nexus" has been an indicator of charlatans for at least a decade. It's the "everything is connected to everything else, let's cherry pick data to prove it" approach. I have a mini project on it.
November 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"Nexus" has been an indicator of charlatans for at least a decade. It's the "everything is connected to everything else, let's cherry pick data to prove it" approach. I have a mini project on it.
Reposted by Paul Nightingale
you will be shocked - shocked! - to learn this mathematically impossible table of summary statistics comes from a paper:
🚩 about "green economics"
🚩 published in Frontiers
🚩 with "nexus" in the title
🚩 full of tortured phrases
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
🚩 about "green economics"
🚩 published in Frontiers
🚩 with "nexus" in the title
🚩 full of tortured phrases
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
November 20, 2025 at 10:38 AM
you will be shocked - shocked! - to learn this mathematically impossible table of summary statistics comes from a paper:
🚩 about "green economics"
🚩 published in Frontiers
🚩 with "nexus" in the title
🚩 full of tortured phrases
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
🚩 about "green economics"
🚩 published in Frontiers
🚩 with "nexus" in the title
🚩 full of tortured phrases
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...