The credibility crisis in research: Can economics tools help?

The issue of nonreplicable evidence has attracted considerable attention across biomedical and other sciences. This concern is accompanied by an increasing interest in reforming research incentives and practices. How to optimally perform these reforms is a scientific problem in itself, and economics...

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Autores principales: Gall, Thomas, Ioannidis, John P. A., Maniadis, Zacharias
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Perspective
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5405914/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28445470
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2001846
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description The issue of nonreplicable evidence has attracted considerable attention across biomedical and other sciences. This concern is accompanied by an increasing interest in reforming research incentives and practices. How to optimally perform these reforms is a scientific problem in itself, and economics has several scientific methods that can help evaluate research reforms. Here, we review these methods and show their potential. Prominent among them are mathematical modeling and laboratory experiments that constitute affordable ways to approximate the effects of policies with wide-ranging implications.
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spelling pubmed-54059142017-05-14 The credibility crisis in research: Can economics tools help? Gall, Thomas Ioannidis, John P. A. Maniadis, Zacharias PLoS Biol Perspective The issue of nonreplicable evidence has attracted considerable attention across biomedical and other sciences. This concern is accompanied by an increasing interest in reforming research incentives and practices. How to optimally perform these reforms is a scientific problem in itself, and economics has several scientific methods that can help evaluate research reforms. Here, we review these methods and show their potential. Prominent among them are mathematical modeling and laboratory experiments that constitute affordable ways to approximate the effects of policies with wide-ranging implications. Public Library of Science 2017-04-26 /pmc/articles/PMC5405914/ /pubmed/28445470 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2001846 Text en © 2017 Gall et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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