Bringing a 'trust but verify' model to journal peer review
Friday, July 21, 2017 - 05:32
in Psychology & Sociology
Academic journals are increasingly asking authors to use transparent reporting practices to "trust, but verify" that outcomes are not being reported in a biased way and to enable other researchers to reproduce the results. To implement these reporting practices, most journals rely on the process of peer review—in which other scholars review research findings before publication—but relatively few journals measure the quality and effectiveness of the process.