How could the R-factor help to solve the crisis of credibility?
Assigning the R-factor to scientific reports will solve two interrelated
and unresolved problems that underlie the crisis: that the careers of
researchers are disconnected from the veracity of what they report, and
that finding the veracity of a claim or a researcher is currently
difficult. By solving these problems the R-factor has the potential to
link the careers of researchers to the veracity of their reports, thus
introducing a missing self-correction feedback in the system (Fig. \ref{294322}).