1. Manuscripts submitted to the JHR will be judged in part by whether
they have reconciled their results with already published research on
the same topic. In cases where a past study has obtained different
results for reasons that are not obvious on an a priori basis, authors
may be required to perform some comparative estimation with their own
data set. In addition, the JHR will continue its existing policy of
requiring authors to present the results of sensitivity tests.
2. Authors of accepted manuscripts will be asked to preserve the data
used in their analysis and to make the data available to others at
reasonable cost from a date six months after the JHR publication data
and for a period of three years thereafter. Authors wishing to request
an exemption from this requirement should notify the editors at the time
of manuscript submission or after receiving this notice; otherwise,
authors will be assumed to accept the requirement. The use of
proprietary data sets, for example, may prompt an exemption request.
Failure to honor data requests may jeopardize future publication in the
JHR.
3. The JHR encourages the submission of papers that conduct
replication, fragility, and/or sensitivity studies of empirical work
that has appeared in the JHR in the last five years or other empirical
work that the editors judge to be important to the fields covered by the
journal. Studies that confirm the results of prior work, as well as
those that do not, are welcome. The editors are especially interested in
studies that examine the robustness of past work to choice of analysis
sample, variable definition, functional form assumptions, estimation
technique, and other aspects of model specification. Papers that conduct
a study testing results from already published work on different data
sets are also of interest. Authors may query the editors in advance to
determine whether specific studies they are planning are suitable for
this JHR category.
4. Authors who wish clarification of any aspect of this policy statement
may write to the editors.
August 1, 1989
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