Top 5 Factors Affecting Reproducibility in Research
How can science go wrong? This thought often comes to researchers. When you discuss with your PI about designing an experiment, and your PI informs you about how replicating the…
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Top 10 Journals to Publish Your Negative Results
Failure is the stepping stone to success. Most technological advancements have stemmed from initial failures. Even well-executed experiments with a clear hypothesis produce…
Should You Pre-Register Your Research Study? A Quick Guide
The field of academic publishing has been undergoing numerous changes in the past few decades. The replication crisis and publication bias are both serious issues that need to be…
Should Researchers Include a Confidence Index of Their Results?
The ongoing reproducibility crisis has drawn attention to the way experiments are reported. Alarmingly, a Nature survey revealed that 70 % of scientists were unable to reproduce…
Meta-Analysis of Research: Getting the Bigger Picture
The reproducibility crisis in research is not new to the scientific community. To demonstrate this phenomenon, cancer researchers attempted to reproduce studies published in highly…
Alarming Reproducibility Crisis Invading Social Sciences Journals
The reproducibility crisis has affected the scientific community for more than a decade now. This crisis has raised doubts about the validity of scientific studies and papers…
The Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology to Replicate Only 18 Studies Now
In order to be able to translate basic biomedical research into clinical research, it needs to be robust and reproducible. This has major implications in the pharmaceutical…
Meet the Sherlocks of Academia: Scientific Sleuths
As a researcher, you constantly read the literature in your field to keep up with developments. But, how can you be sure that the authors have been transparent in their research…
What if You Lose Confidence in Your Research?
Research reproducibility is the foundation of scientific research. Transparency in research design and methodology, as well as data collection, analysis, and storage is critical to…
FDA Approves the First Marijuana-Based Drug
The rate of discoveries in medical research has accelerated in light of increasing technological advances. Discoveries in drug research have notably promoted human health and life…
R-Factor to Reduce Instances of Scientific Fraud?
A significant chunk of research published in the last few years has faced reproducibility issues. According to a recent report, only 6 out of 53 landmark cancer studies were found…
Nature Refuses to Publish Replication Attempts of Research
Reproducibility of research is important for the academic community. Both researchers as well as publishers need to comply with the prevalent guidelines on reproducibility of…