What is it about?
Despite having a peer review "stamp of approval", many studies in academic research are untrustworthy and potentially inaccurate. These inaccuracies are often due to common but problematic practices that researchers use. One way to limit those practices is by implementing stricter policies at academic journals. In our study, we look at 10 such potential policies, and evaluate 51 popular journals in our field, Human-Computer Interaction, to see whether they have implemented them or not.
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Why is it important?
We find that almost no journals currently have strict policies around important aspects of research quality, such as publication bias and sharing data. Were journals to change this, they would have a huge top-down effect on researchers' behavior, and potentially increase the trustworthiness of the scientific literature.
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This page is a summary of: Are You Open? A Content Analysis of Transparency and Openness Guidelines in HCI Journals, May 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3411764.3445584.
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