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Open Invitation to the Webinar Launch of the InSPiR2eS International Research Alliance
InSPiR2eS is a new global research network primarily aimed at research training and capacity building, resting on a foundation theme of responsible science (for some more details, please refer to the 2-pager outline here). Whether you are a current network…
Read MoreCOS wants YOU to collaborate with them!
The Center for Open Science (COS), as part of Phase 2 of the SCORE project, is looking for researchers interested in collaborating on replication and reproduction projects. In a nutshell, COS has identified a number of articles across a wide variety…
Read MoreOn the Past and Present of Reproducibility and Replicability in Economics
[Excerpts are taken from the article “Reproducibility and Replicability in Economics” by Lars Vilhuber, published in Harvard Data Science Review] “In this overview, I provide a summary description of the history and state of reproducibility and replicability in the academic field…
Read MoreWhat is REECAP? And Why You Should Watch Their Webinar (19 October 2020, 10.30-12.30 CET)
The Research network on Economic Experiments for the Common Agricultural Policy (REECAP) is an EU-wide informal consortium with the aim to promote and foster economic experimental designs and behavioural analysis in the context of evaluating European agricultural policies. The network…
Read MoreNature Human Behaviour: “Replications Do Not Fail”
[Excerpts taken from the editorial, “Replications do not fail” published by Nature Human Behaviour] “For a very long time, replication studies had a lowly status in the hierarchy of publishable research. The equation of scientific advance with novelty and discovery…
Read MorePre-Analysis Plans in Economics: A Help or a Hindrance for Publication Success and Impact?
[Excerpts taken from the article “Do Pre-analysis Plans Hamper Publication?” by George Ofosu and Daniel Posner, published in the AER: Papers and Proceedings] “Pre-analysis plans (PAPs) have been criticized… that PAPs generate dull, lab-report-style papers that are disfavored by reviewers…
Read MorePredicting Reproducibility: Rise of the Machines
[Excerpts are taken from the article “Estimating the deep replicability of scientific findings using human and artificial intelligence” by Yang Yang, Wu Youyou, and Brian Uzzi, published in PNAS] “…we trained an artificial intelligence model to estimate a paper’s replicability using…
Read MoreAssess Business and Economics Claims. Help Science! Make Money!
The repliCATS project is part of a research program called SCORE, funded by DARPA, that eventually aims to build automated tools that can rapidly and reliably assign confidence scores to social science research claims. Our method – the IDEA protocol – harnesses the power…
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