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How researchers can improve the quality of systematic reviews
24 September 2019
Jon Brock
A guideline to boost transparency is being updated.
Frequent collaborators are less likely to produce replicable results
20 September 2019
Gemma Conroy
Stick with who you don't know.
A “petting zoo for code” makes studies easier to reproduce
18 June 2019
Jeffrey M. Perkel
A new tool helps users to compose, compute and publish reproducible articles.
High-profile journals put to reproducibility test
30 August 2018
Philip Ball
Researchers replicated 62% of social-behaviour findings published in Science and Nature — a result matched almost exactly by a prediction market.
Q&A Adam Russell: The search for automated tools to rate research reproducibility
8 August 2018
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
A US project is exploring the use of software to assign confidence levels to published research.
For the sake of science, it’s time to break ranks
26 July 2018
Anja Krieger
Researchers call for a change in evaluation to recognise the importance of reproducibility.
When it comes to reproducible science, Git is code for success
11 June 2018
Jeffrey Perkel
And the key to its popularity is the online repository and social network, GitHub.
Obsession with novelty sidelines deeper learning
22 November 2017
Brian Owens
Too much focus on generating new ideas in science is driving the replication crisis.
