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Replication Policy Routledge Taylor & Francis Group |
Replication Policy Authors submitting quantitative or qualitative research papers to this journal for review must address the issue of data availability and the concrete possibility for replication in their first footnote. Authors are ordinarily expected to indicate in this footnote in which public archive they will deposit the information necessary to replicate their results, and the date when it will be submitted. The information deposited will vary depending on the research methods employed. Authors of quantitative manuscripts should include items such as original data, the names of specialized computer programs, lists of computer program recodes, extracts of existing data files, and an explanatory file that describes what is included and explains how to reproduce the exact numerical results in the published work. Qualitative researchers should also deposit original data in a public archive, as well as any final annotated datasets, the project codebook and coder training manuals, along with instructions on which specialized software was employed during the coding process. JITP has a devoted space in the Dataverse (http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/jitp) for replication datasets. Authors may also find the Publication-Related Archive of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) a convenient place to deposit their data. Statements explaining the inappropriateness of sharing data for a specific work (or of the necessity for periods of embargo past the publication date) may fulfill the requirement. Peer reviewers will be asked to assess the footnote as part of the general evaluative process, and to advise the editor accordingly. As always, authors are advised to remove information from their datasets that must remain confidential, such as the names of survey respondents. |
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