60th Anniversary Essay: How Journals Could Improve Research Practices in Social Science

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Starbuck, William H.
• 署名单位: University of Oregon
• 刊物名称: ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE QUARTERLY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-8392
• DOI: 10.1177/0001839216629644
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 165-183
• 关键词: double-blind; reliability; CONSTRUCTION; favoritism; PSYCHOLOGY; COMPUSTAT; search

摘要

This essay proposes ways to improve editorial evaluations of manuscripts and to make published research more reliable and trustworthy. It points to troublesome properties of current editorial practices and suggests that editorial evaluations could become more reliable by making more allowance for reviewers' human limitations. The essay also identifies some troublesome properties of prevalent methodology, such as statistical significance tests, HARKing, and p-Hacking, and proposes editorial policies to mitigate these detrimental behaviors.