Scientists build on knowledge gained and published by others. How can we know which findings to trust?
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Reproducibility
Displaying 21 - 28 of 28 articles
Meta-analyses that combine many different studies are the gold standard for medical evidence. But they are only as good research they examine.
Virtually every researcher relies on computers to collect or analyze data. But when computers are opaque black boxes that manipulate data, it’s impossible to replicate studies – a core value for science.
The field of psychology is trying to absorb a recent big study that was able to replicate only 36 out of 100 major research papers. That finding is an issue, but maybe not for the reason you think.
Researchers from around the globe tried to replicate 100 published psychology studies. They were successful on only 36.
It’s a problem when much of what winds up in scientific journals isn’t replicable, for various reasons. The research community is taking baby steps toward addressing the “reproducibility crisis.”
Over the past few years, there has been a growing awareness that many experimentally established “facts” don’t seem to hold up to repeated investigation. This was highlighted in a 2010 article in the New…
Scientific fraud has raised its ugly head once more. In a note to chemists in the journal Organic Letters, Amos Smith, the editor-in-chief, has announced that an analysis of data submitted to the journal…
Top contributors
-
Associate Professor of Archaeology, University of Washington
-
Professor of Psychology, Stetson University
-
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina
-
Distinguished Writer In Residence, Arthur Carter Journalism Institute, New York University
-
Deputy Director, Neuroscience Research Australia
-
Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic Quality and Professor of Molecular Biology, UNSW Sydney
-
Adjunct Professor, Macquarie University
-
Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology and Biomedical Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago
-
Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Psychology, The University of Queensland
-
Professor, University of Wollongong
-
PhD Student and Trainee Clinical Psychologist at the Graduate Center, City University of New York
-
Professor of Communication, The Ohio State University
-
Director of the Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge
-
Professor of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, University of Sheffield
-
Professor, School of Biosciences & School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, The University of Melbourne
