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Peer-reviewers twice as likely to accept research conducted on men than the same research on women
11 May 2021
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
How biases may play out against female experimental participants.
How COVID-19 could make science kinder
24 February 2021
Gemma Conroy
Reviewers are providing more constructive feedback in a time of crisis, but how long will it last?
3 ways to make your scientific images accurate, informative and accessible
8 February 2021
Andy Tay
It’s all in the detail, from colour choice to how methods are documented, and everything in between.
COVID-19: Where is the data?
22 December 2020
Julien Larregue et al.
Levels of open data remain stubbornly low, despite efforts to make research publishing more transparent, say Julien Larregue et al.
The race to the top among the world’s leaders in artificial intelligence
10 December 2020
Neil Savage
As revenues and research output soar in the field of AI, global competition between the United States, China and Europe heats up.
Three reasons to share your research failures
22 September 2020
Gemma Conroy
There’s a new journal for that.
TOP Factor rates journals on transparency, openness
18 February 2020
Chris Woolston
New tool seeks to change editorial
practices.
Software searches out reproducibility issues in scientific papers
28 January 2020
Dalmeet Singh Chawla
Papers are getting more rigorous, but progress is slower than some researchers would like.
Psychology looks to physics to solve replication crisis
6 January 2020
Jon Brock
What the CERN of psychology looks like.
The 10 most common mistakes with statistics, and how to avoid them
11 November 2019
Gemma Conroy
Significant results are not the only goal.
Q&A: 5 simple ways to make your research more reproducible
31 October 2019
Gemma Conroy
Small details can make a big difference.
"It’s not a replication crisis. It’s an innovation opportunity"
28 October 2019
Jon Brock
The meaning of failure in science.
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.
