By: Björn
29th ECNP Congress – Vienna 2016
October 24, 2016Two reproducibility symposia were held during the 29th annual congress of European College of Neuropsychopharmacology on September 20, 2016 (link): For…
Read MoreHow Many Is Too Many? On the Relationship between Research Productivity and Impact.
October 20, 2016In this research article, published in PLOS One, V. Larivière and R. Costas analysed the publication and citation records of more…
Read MoreThe False Discovery Rate (FDR) – an important statistical concept
October 12, 2016The p-value reports the probability of seeing a difference as large as the observed one, or larger, even if the two…
Read MoreBlinding – does it really have an impact?
October 11, 2016Zubin Mehta, conductor of the Los Angeles Symphony from 1964 to 1978 and of the New York Philharmonic from 1978 to…
Read MorePredatory Publishing Threatens the Scientific Enterprise
October 11, 2016Open-access publishing has grown dramatically, with a linear increase in the number of articles published, from about 53,000 in 2010 to…
Read MoreNewsletter September 2016
September 25, 2016Martin C. Michel: ‘My reasons to join PAASP’ – Read more PAASP’s presence at the World Congress on Alcohol and Alcoholism,…
Read MoreAdditional Publications October 2016
September 24, 2016The article ‘Never waste a good crisis: Confronting Reproducibility in Translational Research’ by Daniel Drucker and published in Cell Metabolism picks…
Read MoreNumber of citations as a measure of research quality – a dangerous approach
September 24, 2016How Many Is Too Many? On the Relationship between Research Productivity and Impact. In this research article, published in PLOS One…
Read MorePublications September 2016
September 22, 2016From a mouse: systematic analysis reveals limitations of experiments testing interventions in Alzheimer’s disease mouse models. Systematic review and meta-analysis are…
Read MoreWorld Congress on Alcohol and Alcoholism (Berlin, Sep 2-5, 2016)
September 22, 2016Together with Rainer Spanagel (Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim) and Henry Kranzler (University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine), Anton…
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