Ten Meta Science Insights to Deal With the Credibility Crisis in the Social Sciences
Rene Bekkers,
A decade of meta science research on social science research has produced devastating results. While the movement towards open…
A decade of meta science research on social science research has produced devastating results. While the movement towards open…
To encourage researchers to share a wider range of results, ASAPbio has launched a competition that calls for the submission…
The first thing you learn as a scientist is that most of your experiments will fail. Despite this, and the fact that rejection…
Immer mehr WissenschaftlerInnen lassen in sogenannten Registered Reports ihre Hypothesen und Methoden begutachten, bevor sie…
Last month, Indonesia’s previous Minister of Research and Technology boasted that in 2019, Indonesia had overtaken Malaysia and…
The next time you are considering taking time off, remember that if Alexander Fleming hadn’t taken a two-week vacation he wouldn…
“Replicability of findings is at the heart of any empirical science” (Asendorpf, Conner, De Fruyt, et al., 2013, p. 108) The…
Despite widespread acceptance of a consensus around the science of climate change, supposedly factual debates about the…
Do climate scientists avoid publishing results that go against the consensus on man-made climate change, in favour of results…
Not every study contains accurate information — but over time, some of those incorrect findings can become canonized as “fact.…
Reproducibility is a bedrock principle of science. The results in a scientific paper are not supposed to be the reflection of…
Many times a negative can be very enlightening. There is a lot of pressure on academic researchers. Rightly or wrongly, it is…
As a large funder of biomedical research, the Wellcome Trust is keen to ensure that the findings of that research are widely…
As a large funder of biomedical research, the Wellcome Trust is keen to ensure that the findings of that research are widely…
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but “That…
Una práctica habitual, que cualquier estudiante que ha tratado de reproducir los resultados de un artículo técnico ha vivido en…
Una práctica habitual, que cualquier estudiante que ha tratado de reproducir los resultados de un artículo técnico ha vivido en…
BMC Psychology pledges 'to put less emphasis on interest levels' and publish repeat studies and negative resultsIn 2005, the…
This note (also available in pdf here) aims to feed the discussion about how to deal with fraud and other forms of academic…
How to avoid living in a "filter bubble" and effectively probe new research.
All science depends on trust. Trust that experiments are repeatable, observations objectively made, and research conducted…
All science depends on trust. Trust that experiments are repeatable, observations objectively made, and research conducted…
L'avrete di certo letto o ascoltato tutti quel modo di dire, publish or perish, pubblica o muori, quello che esprime la…