TY - JOUR
T1 - The seven sins of L2 research
T2 - A review of 30 journals’ statistical quality and their CiteScore, SJR, SNIP, JCR Impact Factors
AU - Al-Hoorie, Ali H.
AU - Vitta, Joseph P.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2018.
PY - 2019/11/1
Y1 - 2019/11/1
N2 - This report presents a review of the statistical practices of 30 journals representative of the second language field. A review of 150 articles showed a number of prevalent statistical violations including incomplete reporting of reliability, validity, non-significant results, effect sizes, and assumption checks as well as making inferences from descriptive statistics and failing to correct for multiple comparisons. Scopus citation analysis metrics and whether a journal is SSCI-indexed were predictors of journal statistical quality. No clear evidence was obtained to favor the newly introduced CiteScore over SNIP or SJR. Implications of the results are discussed.
AB - This report presents a review of the statistical practices of 30 journals representative of the second language field. A review of 150 articles showed a number of prevalent statistical violations including incomplete reporting of reliability, validity, non-significant results, effect sizes, and assumption checks as well as making inferences from descriptive statistics and failing to correct for multiple comparisons. Scopus citation analysis metrics and whether a journal is SSCI-indexed were predictors of journal statistical quality. No clear evidence was obtained to favor the newly introduced CiteScore over SNIP or SJR. Implications of the results are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1177/1362168818767191
DO - 10.1177/1362168818767191
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85045077146
VL - 23
SP - 727
EP - 744
JO - Language Teaching Research
JF - Language Teaching Research
SN - 1362-1688
IS - 6
ER -