AndrewKemendo comments on The Journal of (Failed) Replication Studies - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AndrewKemendo 23 August 2009 12:18:57PM *  5 points [-]

If regular journals don't have good incentives to publish "mere" (failed) replication studies, why not create a journal that would be dedicated entirely to them?

There are a few Journals of negative results already out there:

http://www.jnrbm.com/

http://www.jnr-eeb.org/index.php/jnr

Comment author: Vladimir_Gritsenko 23 August 2009 02:34:35PM 1 point [-]

Cool, thanks! (Also, Google-fu fail on my part.)

One other journal I just found (although no publications there yet): http://www.arjournals.com/ojs/

If this is representative, then it's both encouraging (at least a few folks are taking the problem seriously) and discouraging (they're too few). At least now there's something concrete to evangelize :-)

Comment author: cousin_it 23 August 2009 01:10:49PM *  0 points [-]

A novel negative result isn't the same as failing to replicate a study published by someone else.

Comment author: Vladimir_Gritsenko 23 August 2009 02:37:21PM 1 point [-]

At least in the second journal (of ecology and evolutionary biology), they do say they accept replication studies.