The influence of journal submission guidelines on authors’ reporting of statistics and use of open research practices: Five years later

Giofrè, D; Boedker, I; Cumming, Geoffrey; Rivella, C; Tressoldi, P

doi:10.26181/24531451.v1

The influence of journal submission guidelines on authors’ reporting of statistics and use of open research practices: Five years later

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posted on 2023-11-09, 04:12 authored by D Giofrè, I Boedker, Geoffrey CummingGeoffrey Cumming, C Rivella, P Tressoldi

Changes in statistical practices and reporting have been documented by Giofrè et al. PLOS ONE 12(4), e0175583 (2017), who investigated ten statistical and open practices in two high-ranking journals (Psychological Science [PS] and Journal of Experimental Psychology-General [JEPG]): null hypothesis significance testing; confidence or credible intervals; meta-analysis of the results of multiple experiments; confidence interval interpretation; effect size interpretation; sample size determination; data exclusion; data availability; materials availability; and preregistered design and analysis plan. The investigation was based on an analysis of all papers published in these journals between 2013 and 2015. The aim of the present study was to follow up changes in both PS and JEPG in subsequent years, from 2016 to 2020, adding code availability as a further open practice. We found improvement in most practices, with some exceptions (i.e., confidence interval interpretation and meta-analysis). Despite these positive changes, our results indicate a need for further improvements in statistical practices and adoption of open practices.

History

Publication Date

2023-10-01

Journal

Behavior Research Methods

Volume

55

Issue

7

Pagination

10p. (p.3845-3854)

Publisher

Springer

ISSN

1554-351X

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