In: Commentaries
“Integrity and Trust, a University cannot do Without”
August 12, 2019“Trust us, we are a University”KU Leuven was ranked the most innovative university in Europe for the fourth year in a row! This…
Read MoreInvited Commentary: Qeios – from a powerful writing tool to an immidiate Open Access platform
August 12, 2019By Gabriele MarinelloCo-founder, Qeios We have just started with Qeios the path towards the necessary revolution in research production, quality check and sharing.We…
Read MoreMANILA – A web tool for designing reproducible and transparent preclinical intervention studies
May 22, 2019Teemu D. Laajala1,21: University of Turku, Turku (Finland), Department of Mathematics and Statistics2: University of Colorado, Denver (CO, US), Anschutz Medical…
Read MoreSearching for incentives to do better research
May 22, 2019n a recent commentary, Dorothy Bishop has referred to “the four horsemen of the reproducibility apocalypse: publication bias, low statistical power, P-value…
Read MoreIt takes two to do the dance
May 22, 2019We are often asked what is meant by “quality culture”. As one of our colleagues put it, “quality culture is the…
Read MoreTrial Transparency at European Universities
May 22, 2019We have previously discussed that there are significant efforts to make results of all clinical trials public. And there are already…
Read MoreTax support and incentives for research and development
May 22, 2019In many countries, governments are developing and implementing various mechanisms to incentivize innovative research and development. There is a new mechanism recently announced…
Read Moreprivate forever
May 22, 2019There is growing awareness about the values of preregistered studies or key elements thereof. And there is a growing number of…
Read MorePromoting transparency in preclinical research: preregistration of animal study protocols on www.preclinicaltrials.eu
March 11, 2019Smit NW1, Van der Naald M2,3, Wever KE4, Duncker DJ1,5, Chamuleau SAJ2,3,6 1Netherlands Heart Institute, The Netherlands 2University Medical Center Utrecht, The…
Read MoreBalancing futility and benefit – Is academic research ready for higher research quality standards?
December 20, 2018byAnton Bespalov (PAASP)Adrian G. Barnett (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia)C. Glenn Begley (BioCurate, Melbourne, Australia) *For a condensed version of this…
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