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Large numbers of manuscripts are submitted for publication review, and few can be accepted for publication (e.g., the rejection rate for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology was 87% in 2017). The statistics provided by the APA indicated that 1,051 manuscripts were submitted to that journal in 2017. Given the number of submissions, research must be more than methodologically sound and well written; research must make a contribution and advance the state of knowledge in a meaningful way. The extent of the contribution and whether the research is of sufficient scope or merit is a subjective decision, which is why the expertise and fair-mindedness of the peer reviewers is important.

With the recent work of the Reproducibility Project (see Chapter 1), which is determining whether the published findings of 100 correlational and experimental studies in psychology are reproducible, journals may be more welcoming of replications than in the past. Because replications (for the most part) have not been judged to advance the field, there has been a bias against publishing replications to this point.