Publication Bias & A Call For Replications

In an interesting move, the Journal of Law and Courts is "opening its pages to most types of replications, successful or unsuccessful." In its Call For Replications, JLC's editors recognize that journals' traditional "emphasis on novelty means that a replication study has almost no chance of being published unless the replication fails and the failure can be presented as persuasive evidence for an alternative theory." While excluding "successful direct replications, employing the same data and models as the original study," the editors welcome any study that asks whether "findings in one domain extend to another domain or can be replicated using different measures or models."