In: Literature

Acknowledging and Overcoming Nonreproducibility in Basic and Preclinical Research
February 13, 2017

In this Viewpoint article, published in JAMA on Feb 13, 2017, John P.A. Ioannidis summarizes critical factors (e.g. poor statistical methods,…

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A pocket guide to electronic laboratory notebooks in the academic life sciences.
January 4, 2017

Scientists use lab notebooks (LNs) to document their hypotheses, experiments and initial analysis or interpretation of experiments. However, while complexity of…

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Authorization of Animal Experiments Is Based on Confidence Rather than Evidence of Scientific Rigor
January 3, 2017

Hanno Würbel and his team investigated the measures taken to decrease the risk of research biases in grant applications or publications:…

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Additional Reads in December 2016
December 23, 2016

Ranking major and minor research misbehaviors: results from a survey among participants of four World Conferences on Research IntegrityThis recently published…

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Lack of reproducibility – an opportunity for precision medicine?
December 23, 2016

Our article ‘Reproducibility of Preclinical Data: One Man’s Poison Is Another Man’s Meat’ was published recently by the newly established journal…

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A Laboratory Critical Incident and Error Reporting System for Experimental Biomedicine
December 14, 2016

Incident reporting has its origins in the 1950s within the aviation industry where it has been seen to be successful in…

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Additional Reads November 2016
November 23, 2016

A proposal for validation of antibodies. The International Working Group on Antibody Validation (IWGAV) is an independent group of international scientists with…

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How Many Is Too Many? On the Relationship between Research Productivity and Impact.
October 20, 2016

In this research article, published in PLOS One, V. Larivière and R. Costas analysed the publication and citation records of more…

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Additional Publications October 2016
September 24, 2016

The article ‘Never waste a good crisis: Confronting Reproducibility in Translational Research’ by Daniel Drucker and published in Cell Metabolism picks…

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Number of citations as a measure of research quality – a dangerous approach
September 24, 2016

How Many Is Too Many? On the Relationship between Research Productivity and Impact. In this research article, published in PLOS One…

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