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New Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology focusing on Good Research Practice
November 22, 2019The Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology is one of the most authoritative and influential book series in pharmacology. It provides critical and…
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August 12, 2019Road testing ARRIVE 2019 Rethinking impact factors: better ways to judge a journal A Waste of 1,000 Research Papers The p…
Read MoreMeta-Research: Use of the Journal Impact Factor in academic review, promotion, and tenure evaluations
August 12, 2019When issues associated with the current academic evaluation systems are discussed, the use – and potential misuse – of the JIF…
Read MoreOutcome heterogeneity and bias in acute experimental spinal cord injury
August 12, 2019In this meta-analysis and meta-regression, Ralf Watzlawick and colleagues determined the impact of study characteristics, methodologic and reporting bias, and the…
Read MoreGood Practice for Conference Abstracts and Presentations: GPCAP
August 12, 2019GPCAP provides recommendations on good submission and presentation practice for scientific and medical congresses. These recommendations cover conference abstracts, posters and…
Read MoreThe association between quality measures of medical university press releases and their corresponding news stories
August 12, 2019One of the key sources of health-related and medical information are university press releases (PR). This study by Maike Winters et…
Read MoreKnowledge and attitudes among life scientists towards reproducibility within journal articles
August 12, 2019This study by EK Samota and RP Davey investigated the knowledge of researchers about issues related to data reproducibility as well…
Read More3Rs missing: animal research without scientific value is unethical
August 12, 2019The scientists in biomedical research are increasingly worried about the growing number of rules and regulations that they have to comply…
Read MoreFailing Grade: 89% of Introduction-to-Psychology Textbooks That Define or Explain Statistical Significance Do So Incorrectly
August 12, 2019Null-hypothesis significance testing (NHST) is commonly used in psychology and biomedical research areas. However, statisticians have long warned that researchers regularly…
Read MoreA Multi-center Study on the Reproducibility of Drug-Response Assays in Mammalian Cell Lines
August 12, 2019In the biomedical field, a significant proportion of preclinical research data sets are not robust enough to translate into successful clinical…
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