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Diskussionspapiere 1640 / 2017
Replication studies are considered a hallmark of good scientific practice. Yet they are treated among researchers as an ideal to be professed but not practiced. To provide incentives and favorable boundary conditions for replication practice, the main stakeholders need to be aware of what drives replication. Here we investigate how often replication studies are published in empirical economics and ...
2017| Frank Mueller-Langer, Benedikt Fecher, Dietmar Harhoff, Gert G. Wagner
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Diskussionspapiere 1587 / 2016
Despite of its relevance for science policy and the scientific community, empirical research on doctoral education in Germany is sparse. The few papers available face challenges in the sampling approach: simple random sampling is not possible, because a universal register of PhD candidates in Germany does not exist yet. This article focuses on the issues related to possible data collections for the ...
2016| Anna Fräßdorf, Mathis Fräßdorf
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Diskussionspapiere 1572 / 2016
We live in a time of increasing publication rates and specialization of scientific disciplines. More and more, the research community is facing the challenge of assuring the quality of research and maintaining trust in the scientific enterprise. Replication studies are necessary to detect erroneous research. Thus, the replicability of research is considered a hallmark of good scientific practice and ...
2016| Benedikt Fecher, Mathis Fräßdorf, Gert G. Wagner
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Diskussionspapiere 1533 / 2015
Open access means that research outputs, such as articles and data, are free of restrictions on access and free of restrictions on use. In the light of recent market developments in academic publishing, we argue in this essay that the discourse about open access must include a discussion about research infrastructure and innovation in academic publishing.
2015| Benedikt Fecher, Gert G. Wagner
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Diskussionspapiere 1454 / 2015
Academic data sharing is a way for researchers to collaborate and thereby meet the needs of an increasingly complex research landscape. It enables researchers to verify results and to pursuit new research questions with “old” data. It is therefore not surprising that data sharing is advocated by funding agencies, journals, and researchers alike. We surveyed 2661 individual academic researchers across ...
2015| Benedikt Fecher, Sascha Friesike, Marcel Hebing, Stephanie Linek, Armin Sauermann
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SOEPpapers 839 / 2016
We live in a time of increasing publication rates and specialization of scientific disciplines. More and more, the research community is facing the challenge of assuring the quality of research and maintaining trust in the scientific enterprise. Replication studies are necessary to detect erroneous research. Thus, the replicability of research is considered a hallmark of good scientific practice and ...
2016| Benedikt Fecher, Mathis Fräßdorf, Gert G. Wagner
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SOEPpapers 655 / 2014
Despite widespread support from policy makers, funding agencies, and scientific journals, academic researchers rarely make their research data available to others. At the same time, data sharing in research is attributed a vast potential for scientific progress. It allows the reproducibility of study results and the reuse of old data for new research questions. Based on a systematic review of 98 scholarly ...
2014| Benedikt Fecher, Sascha Friesike, Marcel Hebing
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SOEPpapers 603 / 2013
The paper gives an overview of two experiments implemented in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) considering the effect of monetary incentives on cross-sectional and longitudinal response propensities. We conclude that the overall effects of monetary incentives on response rates are positive compared to the "classic" SOEP setting, where a charity lottery ticket is offered as an incentive. In the ...
2013| Mathis Schröder, Denise Saßenroth, John Körtner, Martin Kroh, Jürgen Schupp
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SOEP Survey Papers ; 341: Series D - Variable Description and Coding / 2016
2016| Mathis Fräßdorf, Rainer Siegers, Stefan Damerow, Moritz Mannschreck, Guido Putzke, Alexander Raith, Nina Scherner, Juliana Werneburg, Linda Wittbrodt, Malisa Zobel
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Data Documentation 99 / 2019
2019| Tobias Gebel, Katja Buro, Peter Löwe, Thomas Pilger, Holger Piper, Katharina Zschuppe