Concealing research outcomes: Missing data, negative results and missed publications

Concealing research outcomes: Missing data, negative results and missed publications

Missing data imputation in multivariable time series data

Multivariate time series data are found in a variety of fields such as bioinformatics, biology, genetics, astronomy, geography and finance. Many time series datasets contain missing data. Multivariate time series missing data imputation is a challenging topic and needs to be carefully considered before learning or predicting time series. Frequent researches have been done on the use of diffe...

Concealing agreements over climate-conflict results.

Do short-term climatic changes increase civil war risk? This question has been subject to much scientific debate, prompted by a pair of PNAS studies that reached different conclusions (1, 2). Now, another paper (3), authored by colleagues of the first study, seeks to reconcile this debate by claiming that the results from the second study are consistent with the first. Hsiang and Meng are gifte...

“Based on the data in …” Cohesive markers in Results and Discussion Section of Research Articles

Cohesive frames are linguistic elements that precede the grammatical subject in the main clause. This study investigated the frequencies and communicative purposes of cohesive frame types in results and discussion section of research articles from 4 disciplines. To run this study, 40 results and discussion sections of research articles were selected from 4 disciplines, namely Applied Linguistic...

Concealing research outcomes: Are there times when it is actually justified?

The recently published informative and well-written editorial from Dr. Bhaskar[1] addressing the reasons why as much as 60% of research results go unpublished provides several plausible and well-documented reasons including overt publication bias[2] and the “file drawer effect.” Although I agree that these effects could, in part, be related to researchers’ inherent biases not to report the resu...