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MENCLOVA: Is it Time for a Journal of Insignificant Results?
It is well known that there is a bias towards publication of statistically significant results. In fact, we have known this for at least 25 years since the publication of De Long and Lang (JPE 1992): “Economics articles are sprinkled…
Read MoreTOL & DE WEERD-WILSON: Special Issue on Replication in Energy Economics
Economics has become an empirical discipline. Applied econometrics has replaced mathematical economics in all but a few niche journals, and economists are collecting primary data again. But publication practices are lagging behind. Replication of a theoretical paper has never been…
Read MoreKARABAG & BERGGREN: Misconduct and Marginality in Management, Business, and Economics Journals
The problems of publication misconduct – manipulation, fabrication and plagiarism – and other dodgy practices such as salami-style publications are attracting increasing attention. In the newly published paper “Misconduct, Marginality, and Editorial Practices in Management, Business, and Economics” (full text…
Read MoreSpecial Issue on How to Improve Replication in the Social Sciences
The journal International Studies Perspective has a collection of articles that address various dimensions of replication in the social sciences, in general, and the field of international relations, in particular. An interesting proposal comes from an article by MICHAEL COLARESI, who…
Read MoreBiomedicine Now Has an Online Platform Completely Devoted to Replications
(FROM THE CHANNEL’S WEBSITE) “The Preclinical Reproducibility and Robustness channel is a platform for open and transparent publication of confirmatory and non-confirmatory studies in biomedical research. The channel is open to all scientists from both academia and industry and provides a…
Read MoreCLAIRE BOEING-REICHER: Crowdsourcing a Journal’s Replication Policy
As reported in a previous blog post, the Economics E-Journal has launched a new replication section. As part of this initiative, we have developed a set of guidelines for replication submissions. These guidelines seek to strike a reasonable balance among…
Read MoreCLAIRE BOEING-REICHER: Economics E-Journal Opens a Replication Section
The Economics E-Journal announces the launch of a dedicated replication section. This initiative is a joint effort of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) and the German National Library for Economics (ZBW). It provides authors across all fields…
Read MoreChanging the World, One Peer Review at a Time
A new initiative calls for journal reviewers to ask editors to request authors to provide data and supporting code/documentation before they agree to review the manuscript. From The Peer Reviewers Openness Initiative: “We suggest that … reviewers make open practices a pre-condition…
Read MoreJOOP HARTOG: Yes, the tide is turning!
In 1981 I was appointed as a professor of economics at the University of Amsterdam. One of my colleagues was Joop Klant, professor of economic methodology. When he retired, in 1986, at the farewell dinner, he reminded us of his…
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