The crisis from above: Gatekeepers need better standards.
Sarah R SchiavoneJulia G BottesiniSimine VazirePublished in: The Behavioral and brain sciences (2022)
Improvements to the validity of psychological science depend upon more than the actions of individual researchers. Editors, journals, and publishers wield considerable power in shaping the incentives that have ushered in the generalizability crisis. These gatekeepers must raise their standards to ensure authors' claims are supported by evidence. Unless gatekeepers change, changes made by individual scientists will not be sustainable.