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Another Elsevier Journal Goes “Blind”
[From the article “Results masked review: peer review without publication bias” by Jennifer Franklin at Elsevier.com.] “We know that research data isn’t neat and tidy. It’s messy, complex and often throws something unexpected at us. At the Journal of Vocational…
Read MoreResults-Free Peer Review: The Video
Previous posts at TRN have highlighted “results-free peer review” (RFPR) efforts at a variety of journals: see here, here, and here. The journal BMC Psychology recently put together a short (approximately 2 minutes) video discussing their new policy of “results-free…
Read MoreWEICHENRIEDER: FinanzArchiv/Public Finance Analysis Wants Your Insignificant Results!
There is considerable concern among scholars that empirical papers face a drastically smaller chance of being published if the results looking to confirm an established theory turn out to be statistically insignificant. Such a publication bias can provide a wrong…
Read More2 Humps = P-Hacking + Publication Bias?
In a recent blogpost at Simply Statistics, Jeff Leek announced a new R package called tidypvals: “The tidypvals package is an effort to find previous collections of published p-values, synthesize them, and tidy them into one analyzable data set.” In a preview…
Read MoreElsevier and the 5 Diseases of Academic Research
[From the article “5 diseases ailing research — and how to cure them” at Elsevier Connect, the daily news site for Elsevier Publishing.] This article summarizes the “diseases” ailing scientific research as identified in the article “On doing better science: From thrill…
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…
Read MoreThe Journal Comparative Political Studies Tries “Results-Free” Submissions
The website Retraction Watch has an interesting interview with MICHAEL FINDLEY about an experiment undertaken at Comparative Political Studies last year. The journal sponsored a special issue for which they solicited submissions where results were not reported. Submissions were of two types: (i) planned…
Read MorePublication Bias in Action: The Case of Oxytocin and Trust
[From the article, “How scientists fell in and out of love with the hormone oxytocin” in Vox:Science & Health] This article recounts how initial laboratory research showing the hormone oxytocin induced trust between people eventually was demonstrated to be mostly Type I error….
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