Reporting all results efficiently: A RARE proposal to open up the file drawer.

ABSTRACT: While the social sciences have made impressive progress in adopting transparent research practices that facilitate verification, replication, and reuse of materials, the problem of publication bias persists. Bias on the part of peer reviewers and journal editors, as well as the use of outdated research practices by authors, continues to skew literature toward statistically significant effects, many of which may be false positives. To mitigate this bias, we propose a framework to enable authors to report all results efficiently (RARE), with an initial focus on experimental and other prospective empirical social science research that utilizes public study registries. This framework depicts an integrated system that leverages the capacities of existing infrastructure in the form of public reg

SUBMITTER: Laitin DD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8719896 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature