About the Journal
Aim and Scope
The Journal of Contradicting Results in Science (JCRS) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to the rigorous publication of results that contradict an established finding, fail to replicate a published effect, or report a well-powered null where the existing literature reports a positive. It takes its motto, contraria sunt complementa, from the conviction that a result which disagrees with the record is not a defect in science but a measurement in its own right. JCRS is deliberately interdisciplinary: it welcomes contributions from the physical, life, social, behavioural and biomedical sciences, as well as from economics and metascience. Within scope are direct and conceptual replications, whether they succeed or fail; reanalyses that revise or overturn an earlier conclusion; adequately powered null results that contradict an existing positive literature; adversarial collaborations; methodological contradictions; and documented corrections of the record. Well-conducted replications that confirm prior findings are also published when the confirmation is itself informative: the journal seeks an unbiased record, not a contrarian one.
Founded in 2023, the Journal of Contradicting Results in Science is a peer-reviewed journal published twice a year under the editorial direction of Mueen Ahmed KK. It welcomes original research, short communications and critical reviews that advance interdisciplinary science and metascience. All submissions undergo double-blind peer review by at least two independent referees.
Subject sections
- Replications
- Reanalyses
- Null results
- Adversarial collaborations
- Methodological contradictions
- Corrections of the record