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Invitation 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…
Read MoreINVITATION: Join the Many-Economists Project!
This is an invitation to join a project that aims to improve the quality of research in applied microeconomics by examining the choices that researchers make. We are hoping to recruit up to 200 participants. Full participants in this project…
Read MoreATTENTION REPLICATORS: CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS (an I4R collaborative initiative)
Replication is one key to ensuring the credibility of and confidence in research findings. Yet replication papers are rare in political science and related fields. Research & Politics welcomes replications as regular submissions and is happy to announce a call…
Read MoreBe a Part of the Next Big Thing! Join the Multi100 Project
The Multi100 project is a crowdsourced empirical project aiming to estimate how robust published results and conclusions in social and behavioral sciences are to analysts’ analytical choices. The project will involve more than 200 researchers. The Center for Open Science…
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