Political Science

A study of the impact of data sharing on article citations using journal policies as a natural experiment

This study estimates the effect of data sharing on the citations of academic articles, using journal policies as a natural experiment. We begin by examining 17 high-impact journals that have adopted the requirement that data from published articles …

Pre-registration and Results-Free Review in Observational and Qualitative Research

Amidst rising concern about publication bias, pre-registration and results-blind review have grown rapidly in use. Yet discussion of both the problem of publication bias and of potential solutions has been remarkably narrow in scope: publication bias …

Research Preregistration in Political Science: The Case, Counterarguments, and a Response to Critiques

This article describes the current debate on the practice of preregistration in political science—that is, publicly releasing a research design before observing outcome data. The case in favor of preregistration maintains that it can restrain four …

Tie my hands loosely: Pre-analysis plans in political science

In this short article, I want to provide some of my thoughts on these developments from the perspective of someone who writes PAPs and reads them as a reviewer, as well as from the perspective of a journal editor.