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Political Science Journal Puts on Double Feature

[From the website of the journal Japanese Journal of Political Science, published by Cambridge University Press] The website of the Japanese Journal of Political Science recently announced that it was allowing authors to select “results-blind” reviewing as an alternative to…

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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…

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LaCour Data Faking Scandal Hits the Big Time (file this under entertainment)

The LaCour data faking scandal has officially gone viral.  Googling “LaCour scandal” recently produced 230,000 hits.  While serious soul-searching needs to take place at academic journals — or more accurately, needs to continue to take place at academic journals, because…

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