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Replication and Transparency in Political Science: An Update
[From the blog, “Replication and transparency in political science – did we make any progress? “by Nicole Janz, published at Political Science Replication] “When a range of top political science journals signed a statement to enforce transparency in 2014 (JETS statement), there…
Read MoreCheck It Out: Replications in International Relations
[from Nicole Janz’s blog at Political Science Replication] “Nils Petter Gledisch and I just published a guest blog post about replication in international relations at the OUP blog. The blog is based on new research in the field, which we…
Read MoreREBLOG: Evidence of Publication Bias and Misreported p-Values
FROM THE BLOG POLITICAL SCIENCE REPLICATION: “A new article by researchers at the University of Amsterdam shows that publication bias towards statistically significant results may cause p-value misreporting. The team examined hundreds of published articles and found that authors had…
Read MoreScience Journal Argues that Requiring Transparency Inhibits “Creativity and Novelty”. Really?
In a recent editorial, the journal Epidemiology argues that committing to a set of standards known at the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) guidelines would, among other things, inhibit “creativity and novelty.” Instead, the journal says, “We intend to soon ask…
Read MoreA Reblog of a Reblog from Political Science Replication
FROM THE ORIGINAL BLOG: “A recent study sent data requests to 200 authors of economics articles where it was stated ‘data available upon request’. Most of the authors refused.” Is this scientific misconduct? If so, what should be done about it? To…
Read MoreBlogsite “Political Science Replication” summarizes the LaCour faked data scandal
The blogsite Political Science Replication summarizes the recent “scandal” in which a graduate student at UCLA (Michael LaCour) is accused of fabricating data for an article published in Science magazine, leading to its retraction. The summary includes a description of…
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