60th Anniversary Essay How Journals Could Improve Research Practices in Social Science

Volume: 61, Issue: 2, Pages: 165 - 183
Published: Jan 20, 2016
Abstract
This essay proposes ways to improve editorial evaluations of manuscripts and to make published research more reliable and trustworthy. It points to troublesome properties of current editorial practices and suggests that editorial evaluations could become more reliable by making more allowance for reviewers’ human limitations. The essay also identifies some troublesome properties of prevalent methodology, such as statistical significance tests,...
Paper Details
Title
60th Anniversary Essay How Journals Could Improve Research Practices in Social Science
Published Date
Jan 20, 2016
Volume
61
Issue
2
Pages
165 - 183
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