"If researchers want to build on knowledge, they should be able to replicate results to fully comprehend the research that has been done before," says Daniel J. Stekhoven, Ph.D., director of NEXUS ...

As the result of a mandate from Congress, the National Academies will explore the issues of reproducibility and replication in scientific and engineering research. The committee will explore what is ...

A recent study provides evidence that some results of behavioral experiments with insects cannot be fully reproduced. So far, possible reproducibility problems have been little discussed in this ...

Independent verification of data is a cornerstone of scientific research. The scientific method relies on reproducibility to validate findings and build upon existing work. Ideally, researchers should ...

For many bench scientists, resources like GitHub often conjure images of computational researchers tapping away at lines of code—usually in the context of some experiment ending in “-omics.” But just ...

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A paper by some of the biggest names in scientific integrity is retracted for issues including misstatements about the research plan. The authors agree with only one of the journal’s concerns, which ...

The retraction of a high-profile paper 1 that tested ways to improve the soundness of scientific studies has highlighted the challenges of such ‘reproducibility’ research. The retracted paper’s ...

Building on the success of the 2023 Open Call, where consortia in Georgia and Ukraine were awarded, the EU-funded project TIER2 is excited to announce the winner of the 2024 Open Call aimed at ...

When scientists cannot confirm the results from a published study, to some it is an indication of a problem, and to others, it is a natural part of the scientific process that can lead to new ...