Is it ever OK to include "ad hominem" information about an author whose work you are critiquing?

-- i.e., so long as you're not resting your argument on the ad hominem information, but including it because it seems relevant for casting doubt upon the author's credibility or lack of bias.

11 December 2013 7,708 5 View

What exactly is a 'direct' replication in psychology?

What 'counts' as direct/exact? For example, if I try to replicate someone's findings on a different day, with a different experimenter, have I deviated from "direct" replication? Presumably not....

10 November 2013 9,779 7 View

Should scientists modify their research agendas if they think that their expected findings would likely result in intolerable political consequences?

If ever, under what kinds of specific circumstances?

09 October 2013 9,181 5 View

Is it time to start pre-registering experiments in psychology? Could this ever get off the ground?

How can we deal with HARKING (hypothesizing after the results are known) and other such issues without pre-registration? Or is pre-registration more than just a pipe dream?

08 September 2013 4,860 76 View

Should peer reviewers be paid for their time and expertise?

And how would this work?

08 September 2013 3,648 7 View

Do you submit your TOP work to open access journals?

Or do you reserve your 'less good' findings for such venues ...

08 September 2013 9,362 2 View

Should young scholars avoid "controversial" topics until they are more established in their respective fields?

This may be especially relevant for topics in medical ethics, but possible other domains as well.

08 September 2013 3,921 21 View

Have you ever failed to replicate a finding from another lab, but declined to write-up & submit the failed replication? If so, why?

What factors went into your decision?

07 August 2013 688 9 View

How to compare two groups with only two measurements?

Hiiiii everyone! I have an enquiry on statistical analysis. I was looking for many forum and it's still cannot solve my problem. I want to compare means of two groups of data but only with two...

03 March 2021 8,796 3 View

Is SSRN e-Journal Scopus indexed?

I have publication in SSRN. I want to know whether it is Scopus indexed? Does it show impact factor? What is its ISSN No.?

02 March 2021 4,565 3 View

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 View

Do you know any MR image dataset?

I would like to research on MR images (0.5T and 3T). Can you please suggest some websites that I can download dataset including both 0.5T and 3T MR images? Thank you.

02 March 2021 7,735 3 View

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01 March 2021 3,905 5 View

Could you please recommend some good journal that accept very long revie papers (approximately 6000+ words) in neurosurgery, cancer biology ?

Could you please recommend some good journal that accept very long revie papers (approximately 6000+ words) in neurosurgery, cancer biology ?

01 March 2021 8,087 3 View

What is the most reliable source to get Impact factor of journals?

Source to get Impact factor of journals

01 March 2021 6,654 2 View

How to highlight novelty in your research paper?

I have come up with a method and had written a paper on it. Paper got rejected by a journal stating that there is no theoretical novelty. I am kind of confused on why the novelty that I am able to...

28 February 2021 2,393 8 View

Where can I find public datasets with Covid-19 patient information?

Hi, I'm looking for public datasets that have CT, X-ray information, or medical records for patients with Covid-19. Does anyone have suggestions?

28 February 2021 4,760 3 View

Can Ethovision store the generated data and video recordings directly to NAS system?

The size of data generated by Ethovision is huge. Having NAS system for data storage seems to be a good option, I am wondering whether Ethovision can directly store the data to the NAS system...

27 February 2021 6,350 2 View