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PODCAST ALERT: “Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update)”
This is Part 2 of a two-part podcast series on academic fraud from Freakonomics.com hosted by Stephen Dubner. (See here for the TRN post about Part 1.) The original podcast was aired in January 2024 but was recently updated on January 1st,…
Read MorePODCAST ALERT: “Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? (Update)”
Check out the following podcast on academic fraud from Freakonomics.com hosted by Stephen Dubner. Among other things, it provides fascinating details about the Francesca Gino fraud scandal, including interviews with Max Bazerman, one of Gino’s Harvard co-authors, and the Data…
Read MoreCFP: Voluntas Special Issue – Advancing Nonprofit and Civil Society Research through Replication
[The following is excerpted from the webpage of the ISTR: International Society for Third- Sector Research. For the full announcement, see here: CFP: Voluntas Special Issue – Advancing Nonprofit and Civil Society Research through Replication – http://www.istr.org] We call for…
Read MoreInvitation to Participate in a Survey on How Results Influence Journal Publication
Researchers at Cardiff University (Chris Chambers, Ben Meghreblian) are seeking participants in a survey exploring the extent to which the results of a research study influence publication in the peer-reviewed literature. The study takes about 5-10 minutes and is part…
Read MoreFEATURED RESEARCH: 2 Recent Papers on the Role of the Media in Reproducibility
Two recent papers look at the influence of media on replications and retractions. A paper by Eleonora Alabrese concludes that “media coverage shapes the auto-correcting process of science by reducing the amount of misinformation and increasing punishment for retracted authors.”…
Read MoreFEATURED RESEARCH (“Reassessing the Effects of a Communication-and-Resolution Program on Hospitals’ Malpractice Claims and Costs”) – Another Example of a Journal Behaving Badly
NOTE: According to the SCImago Journal Rankings, Health Affairs is ranked in the top quartile (Q1) of journals in the “Health Policy” and “Medicine (miscellaneous)” subject areas. It has an H-index of 190. [Excerpts are taken from the article “Reassessing…
Read MoreFEATURED RESEARCH: Find Published Articles That Can Be Reproduced in Stata
Even papers for which data and code are available are not always easy to replicate (see, for example, Chang & Li, 2022). So when looking for a replicable paper for your class, you might need to try several papers before…
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