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Well-Executed But Not Important: Reading Importance From the Published Record
When AI thins out the technical-flaws desk-rejection pretext, editors will have to learn to say "well-executed but not important" on the record. We treat the published record as data, classifying 2,493 health-economics articles across four journals to ask what "important" has actually meant.
The Editor-Reader Gap
- Calibration: 35% of publications, 18% of citations. Most-published, least-read.
- Identification: 63% of publications, 78% of citations. The field's default reward.
- Reframing: 2% of publications, 5% of citations. Scarce and disproportionately cited.
- Citation premium: Identification +91%, Reframing +126% versus Calibration, holding topic, journal, and year constant.
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