Benjamin Aaron S
Department of Psychology.
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 2019 Feb;45(2):193-195. doi: 10.1037/xlm0000688.
This editorial nudges contributors to (JEP:LMC) in the direction of producing more replicable and reproducible research. This will mean little to no change in practice for many researchers. For others, it will mean paying closer attention to, and being more transparent about, issues of design and analysis. The author would like the journal to provide more tools but few proscriptions for researchers to improve rigor. He encourages author to make data, materials, and analysis scripts openly available when it is feasible to do so. Registered reports are a type of article in which much of the review process and editorial decisions occur prior to data collection. The goal of this editorial policy is to select papers that are valuable by virtue of their rigorous methodology rather than exciting results. Other than Registered Reports, there will no longer be different article types in JEP:LMC. Sections of the journal indicating brief reports, observations, or commentary were appropriate in an era when issues of journals were read. JEP:LMC can remain a standard bearer for high-quality research in cognitive psychology in these heady times. The journal has successfully weathered its collective exuberance over splashy findings and the consequent turn to shorter and shorter articles. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
这篇社论促使《实验心理学杂志:学习、记忆与认知》(JEP:LMC)的投稿人开展更具可重复性的研究。对许多研究人员而言,这在实际操作中几乎没有变化。而对另一些人来说,这意味着要更加关注设计和分析问题,并提高透明度。作者希望该期刊为研究人员提供更多工具,而非过多限制,以提升研究的严谨性。他鼓励作者在可行的情况下公开数据、材料和分析脚本。预注册报告是一种文章类型,其中大部分评审过程和编辑决策在数据收集之前进行。这一编辑政策的目标是选择那些因其严谨的方法而非令人兴奋的结果而有价值的论文。除了预注册报告,JEP:LMC将不再有其他不同的文章类型。在期刊纸质版流行的时代,该期刊设置的简短报告、观察或评论板块是合适的。在如今这个令人兴奋的时代,JEP:LMC仍可成为认知心理学高质量研究的旗手。该期刊已成功度过了对引人注目的研究结果的集体狂热,以及随之而来的文章篇幅越来越短的阶段。(PsycINFO数据库记录(c)2019美国心理学会,保留所有权利)