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Bullying and misconduct in the realm of scientific and scholarly publishing have the potential to jeopardize the transparency and integrity of academic discourse. While misconduct issues among authors have been extensively discussed, the role of …

Academic institutions in Europe (e.g. universities, research funding institutions, academies) are increasingly committing themselves to ‘open science’ principles (see e.g. http://openscienceasap. org/open-science/). Those principles are increasingly …

All of us involved in the mind and brain sciences, in whatever capacity, are increasingly aware of the importance of ensuring the credibility of our research. This credibility—which for experimental work turns on its reliability—is particularly …

The executive, associate, and advisory editors and all of the editorial board members of one of the most influential journals in moral and political philosophy, Philosophy & Public Affairs, have resigned en masse.

Special Issue of Educational Psychologist - Educational Psychology in the Open Science Era Recently, scholars have noted how several “old school” practices—a host of well-regarded, long-standing scientific norms—in …

Objectives: To examine the effect on peer review of asking reviewers to have their identity revealed to the authors of the paper. Design: Randomised trial. Consecutive eligible papers were sent to two reviewers who were randomised to have their …

In animal experiments, animals, husbandry and test procedures are traditionally standardized to maximize test sensitivity and minimize animal use, assuming that this will also guarantee reproducibility. However, by reducing within-experiment …

The authors conducted a 30-year review (1969-1998) of the size of moderating effects of categorical variables as assessed using multiple regression. The median observed effect size (f(2)) is only .002, but 72% of the moderator tests reviewed had …

The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (American Psychological Association, 2001, 2010) calls for the reporting of effect sizes and their confidence intervals. Estimates of effect size are useful for determining the …

A central goal of translational neuroimaging is to establish robust links between brain measures and clinical outcomes. Success hinges on the development of brain biomarkers with large effect sizes. With large enough effects, a measure may be …