Replications of forecasting research

Abstract

We have examined the frequency of replications published in the two leading forecasting journals, the International Journal of Forecasting (IJF) and the Journal of Forecasting (JoF). Replications in the IJF and JoF between 1996 and 2008 comprised 8.4% of the empirical papers. Various other areas of management science have values ranging from 2.2% in the Journal of Marketing Research to 18.1% in the American Economic Review. We also found that 35.3% of the replications in forecasting journals provided full support for the findings of the initial study, 45.1% provided partial support, and 19.6% provided no support. Given the importance of replications, we recommend various steps to encourage replications, such as requiring a full disclosure of the methods and data used for all published papers, and inviting researchers to replicate specific important papers.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2009.09.003
Divisions: College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Marketing & Strategy
Additional Information: © 2010, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Uncontrolled Keywords: replication research,research policy,census study,Business and International Management
Publication ISSN: 1872-8200
Last Modified: 04 Jan 2024 08:05
Date Deposited: 11 Mar 2019 18:14
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2010-01
Authors: Evanschitzky, Heiner (ORCID Profile 0000-0003-1013-7679)
Armstrong, J. Scott

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