Cambridge Core BlogReplication: Practical Advice for Authors and Journals
This post by R. Michael Alvarez originally appeared on PS:Now on April 10, 2018. Research transparency and replication are important issues today in the quantitative social sciences.…
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How to be successful on the academic job market
Now that the new academic year has arrived, many Ph.D. students will be going on the job market for the first time.…
Dealing with rejection: Advice from an editor
It happens to all academic researchers, all of the time. We have to deal with rejection – our papers get rejected for publication by journals.…
Q&A on the use of Google Consumer Surveys for social science research, with Lie Philip Santoso, Robert Stein, and Randy Stevenson
There’s a great deal of discussion these days about survey and polling methodology. A series of close and surprising elections, worldwide, have led many to wonder about the state of polling and survey methodology — Brexit, the Colombian peace referendum, and the 2016 U.S.…
The importance of sharing review data: helping the workload of peer reviewers
Quality reviews are critical for peer review. As a co-editor of Political Analysis, I ask a lot from our reviewers, in particular that they read and evaluate complex statistical, mathematical, and computational research. In many of our submissions, authors provide computer code, with detailed supplementary materials, and reviewers need to examine those materials. Political Analysis reviewers are excellent.…