I’m currently finishing a PhD in Psychology and I would welcome scrutiny of my data. Why? It would set my publications apart.
The hardest part of doing research now isn’t doing the research itself, but coming up with a high quality review of literature. No matter what point you want to make, you can find research to support it. There’s so much crap out there that it’s genuinely difficult to find good, sound research. And you can’t just rely on heavily cited articles because there are a lot of sloppy researchers citing other sloppy researchers. If I get the chance to publish my research in a journal that analyzes the data, I’ll jump at it.
