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IN THE NEWS: The Guardian (September 21, 2016)
[From the article “Cut-throat academia leads to natural selection of bad science, claims study”, which reports on a scientific study by authors Paul Smaldino and Richard McElreath ] “Sociology, economics, climate science and ecology are other areas likely to be vulnerable to the…
Read MoreFamous AER Article on Racial Discrimination Fails to Replicate. Why?
In his blog Data Colada, URI SIMONSON offers an hypothesis why a recent paper in the AER, Deming, Yuchtman, Abulafi, Goldin, & Katz (2016), failed to replicate Bertrand & Mullainathan’s (2004) famous paper on racial discrimination in labor markets. The latter study focused on callback…
Read MoreTwo More Findings from Psychology Fail to Replicate
[From the article, “A Worrying Trend for Psychology’s ‘Simple Little Tricks’” from The Atlantic magazine] “In yet another setback for the field, researchers have failed to replicate two studies showing that basic techniques can reduce racial achievement gaps and improve voter…
Read MoreThe Rise of Negative Results
This article from Chemical & Engineering News discusses publication bias and ways to fix it that will sound familiar to readers of TRN. Of particular interest is the need to make space in the literature for negative results: “The open access movement has…
Read MoreIN THE NEWS: The Economist (September 7, 2016)
[From the article “Excel errors and science papers”] “A recent study in the journal Genome Biology looked at papers published between 2005 and 2015, and found spreadsheet-related errors in fully one-fifth of articles on genomics that provided supplementary data alongside…
Read MoreYou Tube Video on PLOS and Open Science
This short YouTube video by Dr. Siouxsie Wiles, microbiologist at the University of Auckland, is a great introduction to PLOS (Public Library of Science) and the promise of open science. While it seems fair to say that the open science movement…
Read MoreOn the Reproducibility Crisis in….Microbiology?
From obscure to ubiquitous, the reproducibility crisis is now headline news everywhere. In a blog by American Society of Microbiology (ASM) CEO Stefano Bertuzzi entitled, “ASM Addresses the Reproducibility Crisis in New Academy Report”, 6 areas were highlighted for “restoring rigor…
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What is Post-Publication Peer Review?
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This short blog by TONY ROSS-HELLAUER does a nice job of distinguishing between (i) “open pre-review” and (ii) “open final version commenting”, both of which are, unfortunately, lumped under the category of “post-publication peer review.” The blog includes references. To…
Read MoreCategory: NEWS & EVENTS Tags: Open final version commenting, Open pre-review, Post-Publication Peer Review, Tony Ross-Hellauer