Into a new decade
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Editorial Into a new decade Marc Brysbaert 1 & Zsuzsa Bakk 2 & Erin M. Buchanan 3 & Denis Drieghe 4 & Andreas Frey 5 & Eunsook Kim 6 & Victor Kuperman 7 & Christopher R. Madan 8 & Marco Marelli 9 & Sebastiaan Mathôt 10 & Dubravka Svetina Valdivia 11 & Melvin Yap 12 Accepted: 30 September 2020 # The Psychonomic Society, Inc. 2020
Keywords Editorial . Open science . Editorial decision . Reliability . Validity
The 2010s have been exceptionally good for Behavior Research Methods (BRM). The number of papers and submissions almost doubled from 2010 to 2019, and the number of article downloads grew exponentially. In the first 6 months of 2020, there were 800,000 downloads of articles, an amazing number that was unimaginable at the start of the decade. The journal’s success is partly due to the good stewardship of the previous editors, who leave big shoes to fill, and partly to the fact that all 5989 papers published since the start in 1968 up to the end of 2019 are freely available for download at the BRM website. Indeed, the Psychonomic Society takes pride in that all articles become open access 1 year after publication, and even before articles become open access, authors can share their articles in view-only form via the ‘share this article’ link at the BRM website, or make postprints available through institutional repositories. The Society
* Marc Brysbaert [email protected] 1
Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
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Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
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Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, Harrisburg, PA, USA
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University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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Goethe University Frankfurt & University of Oslo, Frankfurt, Germany
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University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
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University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy
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University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, USA
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National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
values open access to research much more than the money it could make by keeping findings behind a paywall. For authors, this benefit is appealing, because their findings become freely available without payment of article processing charges. Another reason for the journal’s success is that it fills an important niche. The founders were right when they decided that cognitive psychology needed a journal for research methods, in addition to theory-oriented journals. It is sometimes overlooked that good stimulus materials and methods for stimulus presentation and data analysis are the bricks and mortar of the work we do. You cannot interpret the results of a test if you do not have good stimuli and good ways to measure your variables. For those tools to be available, it is necessary that the research community rewards peers for developing them by providing a dedicated outlet. Otherwise, there is little incentive (apart from idealism) for doing so. BRM offers that outlet. The jou
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