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SIMCHI-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…
Read MoreNEWS FLASH: Economics Journal Seeking Replication Studies to Publish. Now.
The International Journal for Re-views of Empirical Economics (IREE) is the only economics journal soley dedicated to replication research. They are looking to publish quality replication studies. If you have students conducting replications in your applied economics/econometrics classes, this is…
Read MoreSuppose Researchers Were Offered Money for Replications and Null Results. Suppose Few Took Up the Offer.
[Excerpts taken from the article “In praise of replication studies and null results”, an editorial published in Nature] “The Berlin Institute of Health last year launched an initiative with the words, ‘Publish your NULL results — Fight the negative publication…
Read MoreNew Cambridge University Press Journal Seeks Non-Novel Research
[Excerpts taken from the article “New Journal Focused on Reproducibility” by Colleen Flaherty, published at insidehighered.com] “Cambridge University Press is launching a new open-access journal to help address science’s reproducibility issues and glacial peer-review timelines. Experimental Results, announced today, gives…
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