Confirmational Response Bias Among Social Work Journals
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Science, Technology, & Human Values
- Vol. 15 (1) , 9-38
- https://doi.org/10.1177/016224399001500102
Abstract
This article reports the results of a study of confirmational response bias among social work journals. A contrived research paper with positive findings and its negative mirror image were submitted to two different groups of social work journals and to two comparison groups of journals outside social work. The quantitative results, suggesting bias, are tentative; but the qualitative findings based upon an analysis of the referee comments are clear and consistent. Few referees from prestigious or nonprestcgrous social work journals prepared reviews that were knowledgeable, scientifically astute, or objective. The best reviews came from journals outside of soccal work or from journals that are accepted as social work journals but originate with other disciplines.Keywords
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