Call for Papers (JoEP): Special Issue on Reliability in the Social Sciences
Carlos Alos-Ferrer
Advancing Reliability in the Social Sciences: Meta-Science, Transparency, and Crowd Research
Reliable and cumulative evidence is essential for research that informs policy and practice. In the aftermath of the replication crisis, psychology, economics, and related disciplines have made significant progress in strengthening transparency and methodological standards. Practices such as preregistration, data and code sharing, and stricter requirements for statistical power have become more common.
Nevertheless, challenges remain. Concerns regarding replicability, publication bias, selective reporting, and analytic flexibility persist. Moreover, heterogeneity across study designs, populations, and analytic strategies continues to complicate the accumulation of evidence. At the same time, new collaborative approaches—such as many-lab studies, many-analyst projects, and prediction markets—provide promising avenues to enhance reliability and generalizability, although they also bring new methodological and organizational demands.
Deadline for submissions is May 31st, 2026. Please read the Guide for Authors at https://alosferrer.github.io/joep.html and submit at https://www.editorialmanager.com/joep selecting “VSI: Advancing Reliability in Social Sciences” as article type.