âWeekend Readsâ, the weekly summary by IVAN ORANSKY of Retraction Watch, recently listed two articles on Peer Review. One, a blog by George Borjas, concerns the recent imbroglio at the American Economic Review involving an editor who oversaw the review of an article by one of her coauthors ( read here).
In a recent article in Slate entitled âThe Unintended Consequences of Trying to Replicate Research,â IVAN ORANSKY and ADAM MARCUS from Retraction Watch argue that replications can exacerbate research unreliability. The argument assumes that publication bias is more likely to favour confirming replication studies over disconfirming studies. To read more, click here.