JOURNALS OF NEGATIVE RESULTS.

JOURNALS OF NEGATIVE RESULTS. The Economist article on the explanations advanced by Ioannidis for why so many scientific articles in prestigious journals are wrong says that “There also seems to be a bias towards publishing positive results…. even though negative results are potentially just as informative as positive results, if not as exciting.” For the last thirty years my brother Elmer has been saying that there should be a journal of negative results. There is hope. Now there are several journals of negative results, including journals in biomedicine, ecology and evolutionary biology, and natural language processing.