The Replication Paradox
Will integrating original studies and published replications always improve the reliability of your results? No! Replication studies suffer from the same publication bias as original studies.
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Cancer reproducibility effort faces backlash
A nonprofit's effort to replicate 50 top cancer papers is shaking up labs.
Journal Science releases guidelines for publishing scientific studies
Science posted the most comprehensive [3]guidelines for the publication of studies in basic science to date, calling for the adoption of clearly defined rules on the sharing of data and methods.
Irreproducible biology research costs put at $28 billion per year
Study calculates cost of flawed biomedical research in the US.
Why do scientists find it so difficult to reproduce results?
Researchers face pressure to hype and report selectively, says Dorothy Bishop.
Sluggish data sharing hampers reproducibility effort
Initiative trying to validate 50 cancer papers finds difficulty in accessing original study data.
Achieving human and machine accessibility of cited data in scholarly publications
Achieving human and machine accessibility of cited data in scholarly publications
The paper proposes how to achieve widespread, uniform human and machine accessibility of deposited data, in support of significantly improved verification, validation, reproducibility and re-use of scholarly/scientific data.
Are replicability and reproducibility under-rated in science?
Special Issue on reproducibility in EuroScientist.
First results from psychology's largest reproducibility test
An ambitious [11]effort to replicate 100 research findings in psychology ended last week - and the data look worrying.
How do we solve science's 'credibility problem'?
In recent years science has entered a crisis of trust. The results of many scientific experiments appear to be surprisingly hard to reproduce, while mistakes have highlighted flaws in the peer review system.
Psychology retractions have quadrupled since 1989
Psychology has been home to some of the most infamous cases of fraud in recent years, and while it's just a few bad apples who are spoiling the bunch, the field itself has seen an overall increase in retractions.
4th World Conference on research integrity
The 4th World Conference on Research Integrity will take place in Brazil in June 2015 sponsored by the Wellcome Trust, AAAS, NPG, EMBO and others.
Workshop held by the NRC last week
A workshop held by the National Research Council in the US addressed statistical challenges in assessing and fostering the reproducibility of scientific results by examining the extent of reproducibility, the causes of reproducibility failures, and potential remedies. Here's the program.
Failure in real science is good
Real scientific controversies are self-correcting shows the BICEP2 and Planck example.
John Ioannidis has dedicated his life to quantifying how science is broken
An interview with John Ioannidis, co-director of the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford.
Reproducible research can still be wrong
Reproducibility alone is insufficient to address the replication crisis because even a reproducible analysis can suffer from many problems that threaten the validity and useful interpretation of the results.
Big data studies come with replication challenges
The truth can be hard to find with millions of data points and lots of room for error.
A surge of p-values between 0.041 and 0.049 in recent decades
Study on the abundance of positive results in the scientific literature.
The R-factor: A measure of scientific veracity
We propose to use the R-factor, a metric that indicates whether a report or its conclusions have been verified.
An open science peer review oath
We propose steps to help increase the transparency of the scientific method and the reproducibility of research results: specifically, we introduce a peer-review oath and accompanying manifesto.
Adventures with R
A guide to the popular, free statistics and visualization software that gives scientists control of their own data analysis.
Excess success for psychology articles in the journal science
This article describes a systematic analysis of the relationship between empirical data and theoretical conclusions for a set of experimental psychology articles published in the journal Science between 2005-2012.
Science research needs an overhaul
The current incentive structure often leads to dead-end studies-but there are ways to fix the problem.
Metascience could rescue the 'replication crisis'
Independent replication of studies before publication may reveal sources of unreliable results.
Journals unite for reproducibility
Consensus on reporting principles aims to improve quality control in biomedical research and encourage public trust in science
The Open Science peer review oath
With the increasing complexities of new technologies and techniques, coupled with the specialisation of experiments, reproducing research findings has become a growing challenge.
How to make more published research true
Research Practices that May Help Increase the Proportion of True Research Findings
Reproducing experiments is more complicated than it seems
A new way to measure whether an experimental result is really replicated.
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