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Make researchers revisit past publications to improve reproducibility

Scientific irreproducibility is a major issue that has recently increased attention from publishers, authors, funders and other players in the scientific arena.  Published literature suggests that 50-80% of all science performed is irreproducible.  While various solutions to this problem have been p...

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Autores principales: Fiala, Clare, Diamandis, Eleftherios P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: F1000 Research Limited 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5676189/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29167737
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.12715.1
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description Scientific irreproducibility is a major issue that has recently increased attention from publishers, authors, funders and other players in the scientific arena.  Published literature suggests that 50-80% of all science performed is irreproducible.  While various solutions to this problem have been proposed, none of them are quick and/or cheap.  Here, we propose one way of reducing scientific irreproducibility by asking authors to revisit their previous publications and provide a commentary after five years. We believe that this measure will alert authors not to over sell their results and will help with better planning and execution of their experiments.  We invite scientific journals to adapt this proposal immediately as a prerequisite for publishing.
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spelling pubmed-56761892017-11-21 Make researchers revisit past publications to improve reproducibility Fiala, Clare Diamandis, Eleftherios P. F1000Res Opinion Article Scientific irreproducibility is a major issue that has recently increased attention from publishers, authors, funders and other players in the scientific arena.  Published literature suggests that 50-80% of all science performed is irreproducible.  While various solutions to this problem have been proposed, none of them are quick and/or cheap.  Here, we propose one way of reducing scientific irreproducibility by asking authors to revisit their previous publications and provide a commentary after five years. We believe that this measure will alert authors not to over sell their results and will help with better planning and execution of their experiments.  We invite scientific journals to adapt this proposal immediately as a prerequisite for publishing. F1000 Research Limited 2017-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC5676189/ /pubmed/29167737 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.12715.1 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Fiala C and Diamandis EP http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5676189/
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