The Journal of Spurious Correlations

Qualitative and Quantitative Results in the Social Sciences

 
 

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NEWSLETTER ENTRY ABOUT FALSE POSITIVE FINDINGS ARTICLE BY JOHN P.A. IOANNIDIS

1 December 2007

The Washington Statistical Society Newsletter includes an interesting discussion of the paper “Why Most Research Findings Are False” by John P.A. Ioannidis. The article can be found here.

 

NEW ARTICLE IN FINNISH

20 June 2007

The Finnish popular science magazine Yliopisto-lehti discusses negative results and JSpurC.

 

AN ARTICLE IN A BLOG IN FRANCE

17 June 2007

Enro, scientifique et citoyen discusses journals of negative results in the natural sciences, and in the social sciences.

 

IPSA NEWSLETTER: NEGATIVE RESULTS IN SOCIAL SCIENCE

7 June 2007

The Newsletter of the Committee on Concepts and Methods of the International Political Science Association includes a summary of the article “Negative Results in Social Science”.

 

ARTICLE ABOUT NEGATIVE RESULTS JOURNALS IN GERMAN

16 March 2007

The German affiliate of the MIT innovation magazine Technology Review interviewed the JSpurC editors for an article on journals of negative results in the natural and applied sciences.

 

Joint Publication of JSpurC Editors

1 March 2007

The article "Negative Results in Social Science" co-authored by the editors of JSpurC

has now been published in European Political Science.

The article is currently available online and can be viewed here.
The EPS editorial discussing the journal can be viewed here.

 

BLOGS FOLLOWING NYT YEAR IN IDEAS

28 January 2007

Thought Experiments waxes poetic about spurious correlations and negative results.
This Week in Education
named JSpurC its favorite idea of the year.

 

Article about JspurC in the New York Times Sunday Magazine

10 December 2006

The New York Times Sunday Magazine selected the journal
as one of the noteworthy ideas of the year.

 

POLMETH Working Paper: Negative Results in Social Science

11 November 2006

The editors of JSpurC published a POLMETH working paper that is forthcoming

in European Political Science as well. POLMETH is the online forum of the methodology section

of the American Political Science Association and the paper can be downloaded here.

 

Articles and blog entries about Publication Bias Article

by Alan Gerber and Neil Malhotra

2 November 2006

Several articles and blogs deal with the paper on publication bias

 in political science by Alan Gerber and Neil Malhotra. The article can be found here.

Alan Gerber was one of the keynote speakers

at our APSA-short course meeting:
Crooked Timber
, Nada,

Washington Monthly and Jeremy Freese

 (The first tells a humorous story about the nature of negative results.)

 

Chronicle of Higher Education

25 October 2006

The Chronicle of Higher Education features an article about JSpurC.

 

New Articles in the Blogosphere

20 October 2006

Please find an article about the implications of spurious findings in the humanities.

 

The Research Section has been updated

29 September 2006

Please have a look for yourself: research.

 

New Articles in the Blogosphere

24 September 2006

The Wall Street Journal article fostered a very lively debate in a number of research and academic blogs. Please have a look for yourself: 

Frontal Cortex, Medical Blog Network,

Pharma's Cutting Edge , Health Business

and Abnormal Returns

 

Wall Street Journal Article

about Jspurc and Negative Journals in general

18 September 2006

In her WSJ science column on September 15th, Sharon Begley gave

an interesting account of the new world of "negative results"

and the journals in this field. Among others, the Journal of Spurious Correlations was cited.

Please find here a syndicated version  of this article

or read a brief excerpt of the main points here.

 

JSpurC and ECPR Sponsor APSA Short Course

On “Rethinking Publication”

30 August 2006

The course evaluates how implicit publication requirements 

shape our knowledge of politics, and presents strategies

for evaluating and reporting individual research findings through perspectives from

 the social sciences, statistics, philosophy of science, and biomedicine.

Please find the course outline and the organizers contact on the course page.

 

Survey Update

1 August 2006

Preliminary results for the JSpurC survey are in.

A summary is available through our discussion group.

 

LIVELY DISCUSSION

20 July 2006

BlueSci editorial takes up the issue of negative results.

BlueSci is the popular science magazine produced by Cambridge University students.

 

LIVELY DISCUSSION

10-13 July 2006

JSpurC round table presentation invited by organizers at

The IX Summer School on Economics and Philosophy (2006)

New Philosophy of the Social Sciences

 

LIVELY DISCUSSION

21 June 2006

Please see the discussion at the badscience.net blog.

It includes comments from editors

of negative result journals in other fields:

http://www.badscience.net

 

LIVELY DISCUSSION

3 June 2006

Another discussion. This time on the blog by Michelle Dion.

 

AN ARTICLE IN A BLOG IN GERMANY

17 May 2006

The Weblog für empirische Wahlforschung discusses JSpurC.

 

CHANGES IN SUBMISSION POLICY

15 May 2006

We now accept papers on a rolling basis.

Please see our submit section for further details.

 

LIVELY DISCUSSION

3 May 2006

Please see the article about the Journal on the Empirical Legal Studies Blog.

 

SURVEY

1 May 2006

The JSpurC Spring 2006 Survey has been launched.

Please take a moment to fill it out:

http://chnm.gmu.edu/tools/surveys/1771/

 

LIVELY DISCUSSION

15 November 2005

JSpurC and publication bias were discussed on the Political Behavior Blog

of the Institute for Quantitative Political Science at Harvard.

 

ECPR MEETING

5 September 2005

JSpurC launches officially at the ECPR conference in Budapest.

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

30 August 2005

The first Call for Papers will be available at the JSpurC launch meeting at the ECPR

conference in Budapest, and on this website from 10 September 2005.

 

MEETING

29 August 2005

The official launch meeting of The Journal of Spurious Correlations will be held at the ECPR Conference in Budapest on 9 September 2005 from 19.00 to 20.00 in room 301 of the conference facility (Corvinus University).

All are welcome!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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