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[69] Eight things I do to make my open research more findable and understandable

Posted on February 6, 2018January 23, 2019 by Uri Simonsohn

It is now common for researchers to post original materials, data, and/or code behind their published research. That’s obviously great, but open research is often difficult to find and understand. In this post I discuss 8 things I do, in my papers, code, and datafiles, to combat that. Paper 1) Before all method sections, I…

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[40] Reducing Fraud in Science

Posted on June 29, 2015February 11, 2020 by Uri Simonsohn

Fraud in science is often attributed to incentives: we reward sexy-results→fraud happens. The solution, the argument goes, is to reward other things.  In this post I counter-argue, proposing three alternative solutions. Problems with the Change the Incentives solution. First, even if rewarding sexy-results caused fraud, it does not follow we should stop rewarding sexy-results. We…

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[34] My Links Will Outlive You

Posted on March 2, 2015January 23, 2019 by Uri Simonsohn

If you are like me, from time to time your papers include links to online references. Because the internet changes so often, by the time readers follow those links, who knows if the cited content will still be there. This blogpost shares a simple way to ensure your links live “forever.”  I got the idea…

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[10] Reviewers are asking for it

Posted on December 9, 2013February 11, 2020 by Uri, Joe, & Leif

Recent past and present The leading empirical psychology journal, Psychological Science, will begin requiring authors to disclose flexibility in data collection and analysis starting on January of 2014 (see editorial). The leading business school journal, Management Science, implemented a similar policy a few months ago. Both policies closely mirror the recommendations we made in our…

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