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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…
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 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 MoreLetter in Nature Announces New Reproduction and Replication Journal
[Excerpt taken from “New journal for reproduction and replication results”, correspondence by Etienne Roesch and Nicolas Rougier published in Nature] “More incentive is needed to spur investigation into replication issues and null results (see Nature 578, 489–490; 2020). For example, experienced scientists…
Read MoreGAARDER & JIMENEZ: Replication Research on Financial Inclusion in Developing Countries
In support of recent efforts by social scientists to address the ‘reproducibility crisis’, the Journal of Development Effectiveness (JDEff) recently devoted a special issue on replication research studies in its last issue of 2019. Most journals continue to favor new…
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 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…
Read MoreReplication of Cancer Studies a Failure to Launch
[Excerpts taken from the article “Trouble replicating cancer studies a ‘wake-up call’ for science” by Jack Groves, published at timeshighereducation.com] “Later this year, the Virginia-based Center for Open Science will publish the final two papers of an initiative launched in…
Read MoreWhen Replication Met Climate Change
[Excerpts taken from a not so recent article, “Those 3% of scientific papers that deny climate change? A review found them all flawed”, by Katherine Foley, published in Quartz (qz.com), in September 2017] “It’s often said that of all the…
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