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The Solution to Where to Publish Insignificant Results: Author-Pay, Open Access Journals?

While everybody recognizes the problem, there seems to be little consensus about a solution.  The problem is: Where to publish insignificant research results?  Journals are understandably loathe to publish studies that do not report statistically significant findings.  But when all,…

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A Call for a Journal of Insignificant Results?

FROM THE ARTICLE: “Negative results are an important building block in the development of scientific thought, primarily because most likely the vast majority of data is negative, i.e., there is not a favorable outcome. Only very limited data is positive,…

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