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Scientific reform, citation politics and the bureaucracy of oblivion

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Scientific Utopia II. Restructuring incentives and practices to promote truth over publishability.

An academic scientist’s professional success depends on publishing. Publishing norms emphasize novel, positive results. As such, disciplinary incentives encourage design, analysis, and reporting decisions that elicit positive results and ignore …

Scientific Utopia: I. Opening Scientific Communication

Existing norms for scientific communication are rooted in anachronistic practices of bygone eras making them needlessly inefficient. We outline a path that moves away from the existing model of scientific communication to improve the efficiency in …

Scientific Utopia: II. Restructuring Incentives and Practices to Promote Truth Over Publishability

An academic scientist’s professional success depends on publishing. Publishing norms emphasize novel, positive results. As such, disciplinary incentives encourage design, analysis, and reporting decisions that elicit positive results and ignore …

Scientists’ Reputations Are Based on Getting It Right, Not Being Right

Replication is vital for increasing precision and accuracy of scientific claims. However, when replications “succeed” or “fail,” they could have reputational consequences for the claim’s originators. Surveys of United States adults (N = 4,786), …

Secondary Data Preregistration

Preregistration is the process of specifying project details, such as hypotheses, data collection procedures, and analytical decisions, prior to conducting a study. It is designed to make a clearer distinction between data-driven, exploratory work …

Seek and you may (not) find: A multi-institutional analysis of where research data are shared

Research data sharing has become an expected component of scientific research and scholarly publishing practice over the last few decades, due in part to requirements for federally funded research. As part of a larger effort to better understand the …

Selective and (mis)leading economics journals: Meta-research evidence

We assess statistical power and excess statistical significance among 31 leading economics general interest and field journals using 22,281 parameter estimates from 368 distinct areas of economics research. Median statistical power in leading …

Self-reported checklists and quality scoring tools in radiomics: a meta-research

Objective To evaluate the use of reporting checklists and quality scoring tools for self-reporting purposes in radiomics literature. Methods Literature search was conducted in PubMed (date, April 23, 2023). The radiomics literature was sampled at …

Shall we really do it again? The powerful concept of replication is neglected in the social sciences

Replication is one of the most important tools for the verification of facts within the empirical sciences. A detailed examination of the notion of replication reveals that there are many different meanings to this concept and the relevant …
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