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Inclusion of Research Materials When Submitting an Article to Language Learning
Author(s) -
Marsden Emma,
Crossley Scott,
Ellis Nick,
Kormos Judit,
MorganShort Kara,
Thierry Guillaume
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
language learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.882
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1467-9922
pISSN - 0023-8333
DOI - 10.1111/lang.12378
Subject(s) - inclusion (mineral) , coding (social sciences) , psychology , process (computing) , quality (philosophy) , computer science , medical education , pedagogy , engineering ethics , sociology , engineering , medicine , social psychology , social science , philosophy , epistemology , operating system
Building on initiatives to promote high quality methodologies and Open Science practices in the language sciences, Language Learning will request, as of January 1, 2020, that all submissions to the journal include, whenever possible, the full materials used in the study for peer review. This includes materials used to elicit and code primary and secondary data (such as questionnaires, language tests, interview or observation schedules, and coding schemas). These materials will be shared with reviewers to better inform the peer review process and ensure rigorous evaluation of the methods used. If the manuscript is accepted, authors will then be encouraged to make their materials available on an open, sustainable repository, though there is no requirement to do so. In this Editorial, we outline the benefits of this policy for the advancement of the language sciences and discuss some potential concerns that authors may have.