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CFP: Voluntas Special Issue – Advancing Nonprofit and Civil Society Research through Replication
[The following is excerpted from the webpage of the ISTR: International Society for Third- Sector Research. For the full announcement, see here: CFP: Voluntas Special Issue – Advancing Nonprofit and Civil Society Research through Replication – http://www.istr.org] We call for…
Read MoreWESSELBAUM: JCRE – An Outlet for Your Replications
Replication studies play a crucial role in economics by ensuring the reliability, validity, and robustness of research findings. In an era where policy decisions and societal interventions heavily rely on economic research, the ability to replicate and validate research findings…
Read MoreSIMCHI-LEVI: Behavioral Science’s Credibility Is At Risk. Replication Studies Can Help
NOTE: This blog is a repost of one originally published at the Informs blogsite (click here). We thank David Simchi-Levi for permission to repost. Several scientific disciplines have been conducting replication initiatives to investigate the reliability of published research results….
Read MoreREED: More on Self-Correcting Science and Replications: A Critical Review
NOTE: This is a another long blog. Sorry about that! TL;DR: I provide a common framework for evaluating 5 recent papers and critically compare them. All of the papers have shortcomings. I argue that the view that the psychology papers represent…
Read MoreREED: Is Science Self-Correcting? Evidence from 5 Recent Papers on the Effect of Replications on Citations
NOTE: This is a long blog. TL;DR: I discuss 5 papers and the identification strategies each use in their effort to identify a causal effect of replications on citations. One of the defining features of science is its ability to…
Read MoreATTENTION REPLICATORS: CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS (an I4R collaborative initiative)
Replication is one key to ensuring the credibility of and confidence in research findings. Yet replication papers are rare in political science and related fields. Research & Politics welcomes replications as regular submissions and is happy to announce a call…
Read MoreExciting Collaboration Opportunity with the SCORE Team at COS
The SCORE team at the Center for Open Science (COS) is looking for committed individuals to help conduct data-analytic replications (DARs) and reproductions. In general, DARs involve using new data and the same methodological and analytic approach that was used…
Read MoreWhat is REECAP? And Why You Should Watch Their Webinar (19 October 2020, 10.30-12.30 CET)
The Research network on Economic Experiments for the Common Agricultural Policy (REECAP) is an EU-wide informal consortium with the aim to promote and foster economic experimental designs and behavioural analysis in the context of evaluating European agricultural policies. The network…
Read MoreNature Human Behaviour: “Replications Do Not Fail”
[Excerpts taken from the editorial, “Replications do not fail” published by Nature Human Behaviour] “For a very long time, replication studies had a lowly status in the hierarchy of publishable research. The equation of scientific advance with novelty and discovery…
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ROODMAN: Appeal to Me – First Trial of a “Replication Opinion”
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[This blog is a repost of a blog that first appeared at davidroodman.com. It is republished here with permission from the author.] My employer, Open Philanthropy, strives to make grants in light of evidence. Of course, many uncertainties in our…
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