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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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