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Bad Science = Good Citations
[Excerpts are taken from two articles, “The Unfortunately Long Life of Some Retracted Biomedical Research Publications”, by James M. Hagberg, published in the Journal of Applied Physiology; and “Inflated citations and metrics of journals discontinued from Scopus for publication concerns:…
Read MoreOld Boys Network: 1; Open Science: 0.
[Excerpts taken from the article “The Stewart Retractions: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis”, by Justin Pickett, published in Econ Journal Watch] “This study analyzes the recent retraction of five articles from three sociology journals—Social Problems, Criminology, and Law & Society…
Read MoreNo Respect for Replication Even on the Big Bang Theory
[Excerpts taken from the transcript to Series 2, Episode 15 of the Big Bang Theory – “The Maternal Capacitance”] LEONARD’S MOTHER: Leonard, it’s one o’clock, weren’t you going to show me your laboratory at one o’clock? LEONARD: There’s no hurry,…
Read MoreIs It a Replication? A Reproduction? A Robustness Check? You’re Asking the Wrong Question
[Excerpts taken from the article, “What is replication?” by Brian Nosek and Tim Errington, published in PloS Biology] “Credibility of scientific claims is established with evidence for their replicability using new data. This is distinct from retesting a claim using…
Read MoreRaise Your Hand If You’ve Messed Up
[Excerpts taken from the article “When We’re Wrong, It’s Our Responsibility as Scientists to Say So” by Ariella Kristal et al., published in Scientific American.] “What simple, costless interventions can we use to try to reduce tax fraud? As behavioral…
Read MoreAnnouncing a New Replication Column at Data Colada (Albeit a Little Late)
[From the blog “[81] Data Replicada” by Joe Simmons and Leif Nelson, posted in December at Data Colada] “With more than mild trepidation, we are introducing a new column called Data Replicada. In this column, we will report the results…
Read MoreSuppose Researchers Were Offered Money for Replications and Null Results. Suppose Few Took Up the Offer.
[Excerpts taken from the article “In praise of replication studies and null results”, an editorial published in Nature] “The Berlin Institute of Health last year launched an initiative with the words, ‘Publish your NULL results — Fight the negative publication…
Read MoreCenter for Open Science Funding Research on the DARPA SCORE Dataset
[Excerpts taken from the RFP “Data Enhancement of the DARPA SCORE Claims Dataset” posted at the Center for Open Science website] “The DARPA SCORE Dataset contains claims from about 3,000 empirical papers published between 2009 and 2018 in approximately 60…
Read MoreWhich Journals in Your Discipline Score Best on the TOP Criteria? There’s an App for That
[Excerpts taken from the article “New Measure Rates Quality of Research Journals’ Policies to Promote Transparency and Reproducibility”, published by the Center for Open Science at their website.] “Today, the Center for Open Science launches TOP Factor, an alternative to journal…
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