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FEATURED RESEARCH: 2 Recent Papers on the Role of the Media in Reproducibility
Two recent papers look at the influence of media on replications and retractions. A paper by Eleonora Alabrese concludes that “media coverage shapes the auto-correcting process of science by reducing the amount of misinformation and increasing punishment for retracted authors.”…
Read MoreFEATURED RESEARCH (“Reassessing the Effects of a Communication-and-Resolution Program on Hospitals’ Malpractice Claims and Costs”) – Another Example of a Journal Behaving Badly
NOTE: According to the SCImago Journal Rankings, Health Affairs is ranked in the top quartile (Q1) of journals in the “Health Policy” and “Medicine (miscellaneous)” subject areas. It has an H-index of 190. [Excerpts are taken from the article “Reassessing…
Read MoreINVITATION: Join the Many-Economists Project!
This is an invitation to join a project that aims to improve the quality of research in applied microeconomics by examining the choices that researchers make. We are hoping to recruit up to 200 participants. Full participants in this project…
Read MoreREED & WU: EiR* – Missing Data
[* EiR = Econometrics in Replications, a feature of TRN that highlights useful econometrics procedures for re-analysing existing research.] NOTE: This blog uses Stata for its estimation. All the data and code necessary to reproduce the results in the tables…
Read MoreResults 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…
Read MoreWant 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….
Read MoreFudging 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…
Read MoreReplication 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…
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…
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