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New Cambridge University Press Journal Seeks Non-Novel Research
[Excerpts taken from the article “New Journal Focused on Reproducibility” by Colleen Flaherty, published at insidehighered.com] “Cambridge University Press is launching a new open-access journal to help address science’s reproducibility issues and glacial peer-review timelines. Experimental Results, announced today, gives…
Read MoreMILLER: The Statistical Fundamentals of (Non-)Replicability
“Replicability of findings is at the heart of any empirical science” (Asendorpf, Conner, De Fruyt, et al., 2013, p. 108) The idea that scientific results should be reliably demonstrable under controlled circumstances has a special status in science. In contrast…
Read MoreProgress in Publishing Negative Results?
[From the working paper, “Publication Bias and Editorial Statement on Negative Findings” by Cristina Blanco-Perez and Abel Brodeur] “In February 2015, the editors of eight health economics journals sent out an editorial statement which aims to reduce the incentives to…
Read MoreJournal Announces Call for “Insignificant Results in Public Finance”
The journal FinanzArchiv / Public Finance Analysis put out the following call for a special issue: “There is considerable concern among scholars that empirical papers are facing a drastically smaller chance of being published if the results looking to confirm an…
Read MoreISO-AHOLA: On Reproducibility and Replication in Psychological and Economic Sciences
[This blog is a summary of a longer treatment of the subject that was published in Frontiers in Psychology in June 2017. To read that article, click here.] Physicists have asked “why is there something rather than nothing?” They have theorized that…
Read MoreRevised European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity Calls for Publication of Negative Results
[From the article “Stop binning negative results, researchers told” at www.timeshighereducation.com] “A new Europe-wide code of research conduct has ordered academics and journals to treat negative experimental results as being equally worthy of publication as positive ones. … The new European Code…
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 MoreIN THE NEWS: CBC News (November 24, 2016)
[From the article “We’ve Been Deceived: Many Clinical Trial Results Are Never Published”] It is now common practice for clinical trials to register their protocols prior to enrolling participants. These efforts are important if the research community is to have…
Read MoreThe Rise of Negative Results
This article from Chemical & Engineering News discusses publication bias and ways to fix it that will sound familiar to readers of TRN. Of particular interest is the need to make space in the literature for negative results: “The open access movement has…
Read MoreOn the Reproducibility Crisis in….Microbiology?
From obscure to ubiquitous, the reproducibility crisis is now headline news everywhere. In a blog by American Society of Microbiology (ASM) CEO Stefano Bertuzzi entitled, “ASM Addresses the Reproducibility Crisis in New Academy Report”, 6 areas were highlighted for “restoring rigor…
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