Keeping Researchers Honest: The Case for Sealed-Envelope-Submissions

Martin Dufwenberg and Peter Martinsson

No 533, Working Papers from IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research), Bocconi University

Abstract: Because journals favor clear stories researchers’ may gain by engaging in scientific misconduct, ranging from shady practices like running more sessions hoping for significance to outright data fabrication. To set researchers’ incentives straight, we propose sealed-envelope submissions, where editors’ and referees’ evaluations are based only on the interest of the research question and on the proposed empirical method.

Date: 2014
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