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The influence of journal submission guidelines on authors' reporting of statistics and use of open research practices

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Giofrè, David, Cumming, Geoff, Fresc, Luca, Boedker, Ingrid, Tressoldi, Patrizio·2017·PLOS ONE

Abstract

From January 2014, Psychological Science introduced new submission guidelines that encouraged the use of effect sizes, estimation, and meta-analysis (the "new statistics"), required extra detail of methods, and offered badges for use of open science practices. We investigated the use of these practices in empirical articles published by Psychological Science and, for comparison, by the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, during the period of January 2013 to December 2015. The use of null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) was extremely high at all times and in both journals. In Psychological Science, the use of confidence intervals increased markedly overall, from 28% of articles in 2013 to 70% in 2015, as did the availability of open data (3 to 39%) and open materials (7 to 31%). The other journal showed smaller or much smaller changes. Our findings suggest that journal-specific submission guidelines may encourage desirable changes in authors' practices.

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Authors
Giofrè, D., Cumming, G., Fresc, L., Boedker, I., & Tressoldi, P.
Affiliations
  • Liverpool John Moores University (GB)
  • La Trobe University (AU)
  • University of Padua (IT)
  • University of Liverpool (GB)
Corresponding author
Giofrè, David
Venue
PLOS ONE
Published
2017-04-17
Volume
12
Issue
4
Pages
e0175583
ISSN
1932-6203 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2606143958
Cited by
98
References
34
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18.16
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • PLoS ONE (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Liverpool John Moores University (acceptedVersion, other-oa)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • CINECA IRIS Institutial Research Information System (University of Genoa) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • Padua Research Archive (University of Padova) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • La Trobe University (cc-by)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Psychology Research and Bibliometrics
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Academic Publishing and Open Access
Keywords
journal submission guidelines, new statistics, open science practices, effect size, confidence intervals, null hypothesis significance testing, open data, open materials, meta-analysis, estimation
MeSH terms
Humans, Publishing, Research Design, Meta-Analysis as Topic

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