Which academic journals are requesting that authors validate their timings?
Currently no journals are requesting that authors specify that they have tested the timing characteristics of their study. However this will be changing in the near future with journals such as Behaviour Research Methods, Instruments, And Computers setting the trend by requesting that authors submit their software, scripts and data for inclusion within a repository. Whilst we accept that academics follow best endeavours on many occasions it is useful to know the timing limits on a given study and how the author verified timing accuracy. In addition within academic publications it is often difficult to unpick the contribution to timing which may have come from a variety of sources. By testing the timing of computer based paradigms this will help ensure that successful replications are more likely. In fields like priming there is still an active debate on the direction of findings and in general researchers are seeking out ever smaller and smaller differences between conditions. In both
