The Replication Network
Furthering the Practice of Replication in Economics
Category: GUEST BLOGS
REED: How “Open Science” Can Discourage Good Science, And What Journals Can Do About It
In a recent tweet (or series of tweets) Kaitlyn Werner shares her experience of having a paper rejected after she posted all her data and code and submitted her paper to a journal. The journal rejected the paper because a…
Read MoreMENCLOVA: SURE Journal Is Now Open For Submissions!
Is the topic of your paper interesting, your data appropriate and your analysis carefully done – but your results are not “sexy”? If so, please consider submitting your paper to the Series of Unsurprising Results in Economics. SURE is an…
Read MoreBITSS: Journal of Development Economics Pilots Pre-Results Review
The Journal of Development Economics (JDE) is piloting a new approach in which authors have the opportunity to submit empirical research designs for review and approval before the results of the study are known. While the JDE is the first…
Read MoreCOX, CRAIG, & TOURISH: Publishers Cannot Be Coy
[This blog is a repost from the article “Publishers cannot afford to be coy about ethical breaches” published April 19th, 2018 in the Times Higher Education by Adam Cox, Russell Craig, and Dennis Tourish.] There are rising concerns about the…
Read MoreRANDALL & WELSER: On the Irreproducibility Crisis of Modern Science
[This post is based on the report, “The Irreproducibility Crisis of Modern Science: Causes, Consequences and the Road to Reform”, recently published by the National Association of Scholars] For more than a decade, and especially since the publication of a…
Read MoreROYNE: Building and Enhancing the Advertising Discipline Through Replication
[This blog is taken from a recent editorial that appeared in the Journal of Advertising Research entitled “Why We Need More Replication Studies to Keep Empirical Knowledge in Check” by Marla B. Royne. The full-length editorial can be found here]…
Read MoreVALLOIS & JULLIEN: Is Experimental Economics Really Doing Better? The Case of Public Goods Experiments
[From the working paper, “Replication in experimental economics: A historical and quantitative approach focused on public good game experiments” by Nicolas Vallois and Dorian Jullien] The current “replication crisis” concerns the inability of scientists to “replicate”, i.e. to reproduce a great…
Read MoreMCMILLAN: Cogent Economics & Finance is Now Publishing Replications
As of the start of 2018, the journal Cogent Economics and Finance is introducing a replication section. Cogent Economics and Finance is an open access journal publishing high-quality, peer-reviewed research. It is indexed in Scopus, Web of Science’s Emerging Sources…
Read MoreCOVILLE & VIVALT: Should We Trust Evidence On Development Programs?
[From the working paper, “How Often Should We Believe Positive Results? Assessing the Credibility of Research Findings in Development Economics” by Aidan Coville and Eva Vivalt] Over $140 billion is spent on donor assistance to developing countries annually to promote…
Read MoreBLANCO-PEREZ & BRODEUR: Progress in Publishing Negative Results?
[From the working paper, “Publication Bias and Editorial Statement on Negative Findings” by Cristina Blanco-Perez and Abel Brodeur] Prior research points out that there is a selection bias in favor of positive results by editors and referees. In other words,…
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