60th Anniversary Essay
提出改进稿件编辑评估和提升研究可靠性的方法,指出当前编辑实践和常见方法论(如统计显著性检验、HARKing、p-Hacking)的问题,并建议编辑政策以减轻这些不良行为。
This essay proposes ways to improve editorial evaluations of manuscripts and to make published research more reliable and trustworthy. It points to troublesome properties of current editorial practices and suggests that editorial evaluations could become more reliable by making more allowance for reviewers’ human limitations. The essay also identifies some troublesome properties of prevalent methodology, such as statistical significance tests, HARKing, and p-Hacking, and proposes editorial policies to mitigate these detrimental behaviors.