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Science with no fiction: measuring the veracity of scientific reports by citation analysis
September 1, 2017The current ‘reproducibility crisis’ in biomedical research is enabled by the lack of publicly accessible information on whether the reported scientific…
Read MoreAdditional reads in July 2017
August 17, 2017Further commentaries, articles and blog posts worth reading Promote scientific integrity via journal peer review data: Argumentation to make the Peer…
Read MoreRedefine Statistical Significance
August 17, 2017When statistician Ronald Fisher introduced the P-value in the 1920s, he did not mean it to be a definitive test. He…
Read MoreCan cancer researchers accurately judge whether preclinical reports will reproduce?
August 17, 2017There is currently a vigorous debate about the reproducibility of research findings in cancer biology. Whether scientists can accurately assess which…
Read MoreCommon pitfalls in preclinical cancer target validation
August 17, 2017In this Perspective, published in Nature Reviews Cancer, William G. Kaelin Jr outlined some of the common pitfalls in preclinical cancer…
Read MoreIs the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?
August 17, 2017Back in 1988, Robert Maxwell predicted that, in the future, there would only be a handful of immensely powerful publishing companies…
Read MoreThe academic–industrial complex: navigating the translational and cultural divide
August 17, 2017In this review article, Stephen Freedman and Kevin Mullane offer a personal perspective on the opportunities, models and approaches that harness…
Read MoreVarious Commentaries
August 17, 2017Macleod, MR 2010. “Why animal research needs to improve.” Nature 477, 511 Young, SS and Karr, A 2011. “Deming, data and…
Read MorePeer Review and Impact Factor
August 17, 2017Brembs, B et al. 2013. “Deep impact: unintended consequences of journal rank.” Front. Hum. Neurosci., 24;7:291. Park, IU et al. 2014….
Read MoreReporting Bias
August 17, 2017Vinkers, CH et al. 2015. “Use of positive and negative words in scientific PubMed abstracts between 1974 and 2014: retrospective analysis.”…
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