Replicability rankings of psychology journals differs from traditional rankings based on impact factors (citation rates) and other measures of popularity and prestige. Replicability rankings use the test statistics in the results sections of empirical articles to estimate the average power of statistical tests in a journal. Higher average power means that the results published in a journal have a higher probability to produce a significant result in an exact replication study and a lower probability of being false-positive results.

The rankings are based on statistically significant results only (p < .05, two-tailed) because only statistically significant results can be used to interpret a result as evidence for an effect and against the null-hypothesis.  Published non-significant results are useful for meta-analysis and follow-up studies, but they provide insufficient information to draw statistical inferences.

The average power across the 105 psychology journals used for this ranking is 70%. This means that a representative sample of significant results in exact replication studies is expected to produce 70% significant results. The rankings for 2015 show variability across journals with average power estimates ranging from 84% to 54%.  A factor analysis of annual estimates for 2010-2015 showed that random year-to-year variability accounts for 2/3 of the variance and that 1/3 is explained by stable differences across journals.

The Journal Names are linked to figures that show the powergraphs of a journal for the years 2010-2014 and 2015. The figures provide additional information about the number of tests used, confidence intervals around the average estimate, and power estimates that estimate power including non-significant results even if these are not reported (the file-drawer).