INFORMS Open Forum

  • 1.  Data policies

    Posted 01-07-2023 15:37
    The journal Decision Analysis has recently adopted a new policy aimed at helping to ensure the replicability of research.  See below, and under "Preparing Your Manuscript" at  https://pubsonline.informs.org/page/deca/submission-guidelines.  We hope that this contributes to the movement for better peer review and improved replicability in science.

      --Vicki Bier, editor-in-chief

    "For papers containing significant empirical, observational, or experimental analysis, we strongly recommend sufficient material to be available (either in the paper or in appendices, data-files and codes) to enable the analysis of the data and/or observations to be replicated. Such material should include experimental designs, elicitation protocols and so forth, as well as the raw data and observations. If requested ,and recognizing that release of proprietary materials may require non-disclosure agreements, authors using these materials should work with the editors to provide evidence that the paper is accurate, and the conclusions are replicable. On acceptance, the journal would expect that these materials are archived in such a way that future researchers can access them, again recognizing that proprietary requirements may necessitate non-disclosure agreements."



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    Vicki Bier
    Professor Emerita
    University of Wisconsin
    Madison WI
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