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Study attempts to reproduce values reported in 35 articles published in the journal Cognition revealed analysis pipelines peppered with errors. Elements of a reproducible workflow that may help to mitigate these problems in future research are outlined.
A strategic kick-off workshop on Reproducibility and Replication with the goal to define the optimal set-up of the activities of the newly opened Center for Reproducible Science (CRS) at the University of Zurich.
Many efforts are underway to promote data sharing in psychology, however it is currently unclear if the in-principle benefits of data availability are being realized in practice. In a recent study, we found that a mandatory open data policy introduced at the journal Cognition led to a substantial increase in available data, but a considerable portion of this data was not reusable. For data to be reusable, it needs to be clearly structured and well-documented. Open data alone will not be enough to achieve the benefits envisioned by proponents of data sharing.
This publication provides an overview of some practical tools and strategies that researchers can implement in their own workflow to increase replicability and the overall quality of psychology research.
Online technologies make it easy to share precise experimental protocols - and doing so is essential to modern science, says Lenny Teytelman.
Celebrating Science Booster - Switzerland's only platform for science crowdfunding.
Colleagues urge UCI to acknowledge the possibility that its sanctions against Professor Ayala were enacted in haste and to reopen the case and investigate the matter more thoroughly.
Physicist Jana Lasser of PhDnet discusses the group's new report.
After years of detective work, it's still unclear why a Japanese doctor faked dozens of clinical trials.
The Wellcome Trust pulled the grant from Nazneen Rahman, who worked at the Institute of Cancer Research in London.
Chris Ebell, who became director of the initiative in 2015, leaves after differences of opinion with the project’s lead institution.
Information about Blockchain for Science, Research and Knoweldge creation. The decentralized future of science. Blockchain bears the potential to make science more effective, make research continous, free data and fix the reproducibility crisis in science.
Mind the Gap is a role-playing game designed as a structure for dialogues which examine the gender gap.
When scientists reach mid-career, they suddenly have to manage people, something they have never done and never really been trained to do.
Unpaywall has become indispensable to many academics, and tie-ins with established scientific search engines could broaden its reach.
eLife is conducting an open search for a new Editor-in-Chief to succeed Randy Schekman.
A set of complementary guides covering the main aspects of depositing software into digital repositories.
A Guardian investigation, in collaboration with German broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk, reveals the open-access publishers who accept any article submitted for a fee.
How the World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology became a multimillion dollar organization promoting bullshit science through fake conferences and journals.
The active use of metrics in everyday research activities suggests academics have accepted them as standards of evaluation, that they are “thinking with indicators”. Yet when asked, many academics profess concern about the limitations of evaluative metrics and the extent of their use.
"Science, research and innovation performance of the EU, 2018" (SRIP) analyses Europe’s performance dynamics in science, research and innovation and its drivers, in a global context.
Robert Kiley, Head of Open Research, and Jim Smith, Director of Science, discuss the steps Wellcome is taking to fulfil the principles of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA).
