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SynthesisBehavior research methods2023

The influence of journal submission guidelines on authors' reporting of statistics and use of open research practices: Five years later.

David Giofrè, Ingrid Boedker, Geoff Cumming, Carlotta Rivella, Patrizio Tressoldi

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Synthesis in Behavior research methods, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Breathing Life Into Meta-Analytic Methods.Journal of cognition · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

David GiofrèDISFOR, University of Genoa, Corso Andrea Podestà, 2, Genoa, Italy. david.giofre@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-1992-6271
Ingrid BoedkerDISFOR, University of Genoa, Corso Andrea Podestà, 2, Genoa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-4053-6486
Geoff CummingSchool of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-1716-5277
Carlotta RivellaDISFOR, University of Genoa, Corso Andrea Podestà, 2, Genoa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-4469-4182
Patrizio TressoldiStudium Patavinum, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6404-0058

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Changes in statistical practices and reporting have been documented by Giofrè et al. PLOS ONE 12(4), e0175583 (2017), who investigated ten statistical and open practices in two high-ranking journals (Psychological Science [PS] and Journal of Experimental Psychology-General [JEPG]): null hypothesis significance testing; confidence or credible intervals; meta-analysis of the results of multiple experiments; confidence interval interpretation; effect size interpretation; sample size determination; data exclusion; data availability; materials availability; and preregistered design and analysis plan. The investigation was based on an analysis of all papers published in these journals between 2013 and 2015. The aim of the present study was to follow up changes in both PS and JEPG in subsequent years, from 2016 to 2020, adding code availability as a further open practice. We found improvement in most practices, with some exceptions (i.e., confidence interval interpretation and meta-analysis). Despite these positive changes, our results indicate a need for further improvements in statistical practices and adoption of open practices.

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Psychology, ExperimentalHumansMental ProcessesResearch DesignSample SizeAuthor submission guidelinesOpen science practicesStatistical practices

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PMID36253598
PMCPMC10615932

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