• DOI:10.1177/1362168818767191
Corpus ID: 149857357

The seven sins of L2 research: A review of 30 journals’ statistical quality and their CiteScore, SJR, SNIP, JCR Impact Factors

@article{AlHoorie2019TheSS,
  title={The seven sins of L2 research: A review of 30 journals’ statistical quality and their CiteScore, SJR, SNIP, JCR Impact Factors},
  author={Ali H. Al-Hoorie and Joseph P. Vitta},
  journal={Language Teaching Research},
  year={2019},
  volume={23},
  pages={727 - 744}
}

• Ali H. Al-Hoorie, Joseph P. Vitta
• Published 2019
• Psychology
• Language Teaching Research

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… Expand