Category: NEWS & EVENTS


REPLICATION: Losing is NOT the Key to Winning

[Excerpts are taken from the article “Does Losing Lead to Winning? An Empirical Analysis for Four Sports” by Bouke Klein Teeselink, Martijn J. van den Assem, and Dennie van Dolder, forthcoming in Management Science.] “In an influential paper, Berger and…

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Results from the “Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology”

[Excerpts are taken from the article “Investigating the replicability of preclinical cancer biology” by Errington et al., published in eLife.] “Large-scale replication studies in the social and behavioral sciences provide evidence of replicability challenges (Camerer et al., 2016; Camerer et…

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Want to Be In on the Final Stage of the SCORE Project? A Call for Collaborators from COS

The SCORE project is entering its final phase of conducting reproductions (repeating the original analysis with original data) and replications (testing the same claim with new data) on a stratified random sample of claims from papers across the social-behavioral sciences….

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Et tu, Finance?

[Excerpts are taken from the article “The hidden ‘replication crisis’ of finance”, by Robin Wigglesworth, published at Financial Times online.] “It may sound like a low-budget Blade Runner rip-off, but over the past decade the scientific world has been gripped…

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IREE Scores a Top Score in TOP Factor

The International Journal for Re-Views in Empirical Economics (IREE) is the only journal in economics solely dedicated to publishing replications. Recently, IREE was evaluated by TOP Factor. TOP Factor is an initiative launched by the Center for Open Science to…

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AIMOS 2021 Is Happening. You Can Be a Part of It.

Registration is now open for the 3rd annual Association for Interdisciplinary Metaresearch and Open Science Conference – aimos 2021 to be held Tuesday 30 Nov – Friday 3 Dec 2021!  aimos 2021 will offer the opportunity for researchers from many…

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Fudging Data About Dishonesty

[Excerpts are taken from the blog “Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Field Experiment About Dishonesty” posted by Uri Simonsohn, Joe Simmons, Leif Nelson and anonymous researchers at Data Colada] “This post is co-authored with a team of researchers who have…

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Early Bird Discount for Tickets to (Virtual) Metascience 2021 Expires July 31st!

Early bird tickets are still available for Metascience 2021 at the discounted rate of $10 USD. To check out the conference, go here. For tickets, go here.

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Replication Leads to High Profile Retraction

[Excerpts are taken from the article “Retracted: Risk Management in Financial Institutions” “ by Adriano Rampini, S. Viswanathan, and Guillaume Vuillemey, published in the Journal of Finance] “The authors hereby retract the above article, published in print in the April…

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