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Less Hype, More…What?
[Excerpts taken from the article, “Blocking the Hype‐Hypocrisy‐Falsification‐Fakery Pathway is Needed to Safeguard Science”, by Henning Hopf, Stephen Matlin, Goverdhan Mehta, and Alain Krief, published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition] “Hype has become prevalent in the age of instantaneous mass…
Read MoreGRUNOW: Update on IREE – the First and Only Journal Dedicated to Replications in Economics
IREE (the International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics) was launched in September 2017, supported by our prestigious board of academic advisors: Sir Angus Deaton, Richard Easterlin, and Jeffrey Wooldridge. It is the first, and, to date, only journal solely…
Read MoreThe Research Integrity Police Are Coming To the Journal Near You
[From the article “To catch misconduct, journals are hiring research integrity czars” by Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus, published at STAT] “Christopher, an editorial assistant at FEBS — for Federation of European Biochemical Societies — Letters in Heidelberg, Germany, is…
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 MoreAnother Economics Journal To Publish Replication Studies
[From the article “Replication Studies” by David McMillan, Senior Editor of the journal Cogent Economics & Finance] “Cogent Economics & Finance recognises the importance of replication studies. As an indicator of this importance, we now welcome research papers that focus…
Read MoreDo Guidelines on Statistical Practice Make a Difference?
[The post below comes from a review by Richard Morey of the article “Meeting the challenge of the Psychonomic Society’s 2012 Guidelines on Statistical Issues: Some success and some room for improvement“, published in the journal Psychonomic Bulletin & Review by Peter…
Read MoreMENCLOVA: 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…
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