Research data and methods policy update for the Journal of Human Rights

Since Shareen Hertel and Catherine Buerger assumed the mantle of editorial team for the Journal of Human Rights (JHR) in 2013, they have worked closely with our Editorial Board and with our Associate Editor Richard P. Hiskes and myself (former Managing Editor, now data consultant to JHR) to expand the methodological range and disciplinary scope of work published in JHR. One outcome of these efforts is the policy change we formally introduce in this issue — namely, the decision to require that authors employing quantitative data and regression modeling techniques in articles published in JHR also submit a replication file and description to a public data portal we have created. Indeed, an excellent piece of scholarship by Abouharb and Payne (featured in this issue) uses quantitative methods with replication data shared through our new system.