If regular journals don’t have good incentives to publish “mere” (failed) replication studies, why not create a journal that would be dedicated entirely to them?
There are a few Journals of negative results already out there:
If this is representative, then it’s both encouraging (at least a few folks are taking the problem seriously) and discouraging (they’re too few). At least now there’s something concrete to evangelize :-)
There are a few Journals of negative results already out there:
http://www.jnrbm.com/
http://www.jnr-eeb.org/index.php/jnr
Cool, thanks! (Also, Google-fu fail on my part.)
One other journal I just found (although no publications there yet): http://www.arjournals.com/ojs/
If this is representative, then it’s both encouraging (at least a few folks are taking the problem seriously) and discouraging (they’re too few). At least now there’s something concrete to evangelize :-)
A novel negative result isn’t the same as failing to replicate a study published by someone else.
At least in the second journal (of ecology and evolutionary biology), they do say they accept replication studies.