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Acknowledging and Overcoming Nonreproducibility in Basic and Preclinical Research
February 13, 2017In this Viewpoint article, published in JAMA on Feb 13, 2017, John P.A. Ioannidis summarizes critical factors (e.g. poor statistical methods,…
Read MoreA pocket guide to electronic laboratory notebooks in the academic life sciences.
January 4, 2017Scientists use lab notebooks (LNs) to document their hypotheses, experiments and initial analysis or interpretation of experiments. However, while complexity of…
Read MoreAuthorization of Animal Experiments Is Based on Confidence Rather than Evidence of Scientific Rigor
January 3, 2017Hanno Würbel and his team investigated the measures taken to decrease the risk of research biases in grant applications or publications:…
Read MoreAdditional Reads in December 2016
December 23, 2016Ranking major and minor research misbehaviors: results from a survey among participants of four World Conferences on Research IntegrityThis recently published…
Read MoreLack of reproducibility – an opportunity for precision medicine?
December 23, 2016Our article ‘Reproducibility of Preclinical Data: One Man’s Poison Is Another Man’s Meat’ was published recently by the newly established journal…
Read MoreA Laboratory Critical Incident and Error Reporting System for Experimental Biomedicine
December 14, 2016Incident reporting has its origins in the 1950s within the aviation industry where it has been seen to be successful in…
Read MoreAdditional Reads November 2016
November 23, 2016A proposal for validation of antibodies. The International Working Group on Antibody Validation (IWGAV) is an independent group of international scientists with…
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 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…
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