Data Collection and Collaboration

Abstract

During a recent meeting of the APSA Committee on Publications, headed by Lisa Martin, we discussed a proposal that had been put forward to encourage authors to deposit their data in a central repository to provide more centralized access for others seeking to replicate or extend prior work. Such a strategy should ostensibly make it easier for methodological, theoretical, and empirical work to flourish and cumulate.

The Publication Gender Gap, Collaboration, and an Index of Inclusion for Scholars Publishing Peer-Reviewed Research

“…Collaboration with and inclusion of new coauthors in research partnerships are positive not only for gender diversity in the field. Many wide-ranging studies also share a positive underlying view of collaboration (Butler, Butler, and Rich 2008; Frasure-Yokley et al 2020; Herrick, Matthias, and Nielson 2015; McDermott 2010; McDermott and Hatemi 2010; Sigelman 2009; Wildavsky 1986). Collaboration has been widely discussed as necessary for the internationalization of scholarship (Appleton and Mazur 2006; Bleck, Dendere, and Sangaré 2018; Mazur 2005; Sinmazdemir 2019).…”

Comparative Politics and Area Specialization: The Hidden Costs of Analytic Transparency

“…Some political scientists had long urged their colleagues to be more transparent, for instance, making their data readily available and precisely delineating the value of each scholarly reference (McDermott 2010;Moravcsik 2010). However, the massive translation of this norm into new rules and procedures only began in 2012 with changes made to APSA's Guide to Professional Ethics in Political Science, followed by the 2014 Journal Editors Transparency Statement (JETS), which committed major signatory journals to develop new author instructions and publication policies in accordance with DA-RT guidelines.…”