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Number of citations as a measure of research quality – a dangerous approach
October 28, 2016How Many Is Too Many? On the Relationship between Research Productivity and Impact. In this research article, published in PLOS One…
Read More29th ECNP Congress – Vienna 2016
October 24, 2016Two reproducibility symposia were held during the 29th annual congress of European College of Neuropsychopharmacology on September 20, 2016 (link): For…
Read MoreWorld Congress on Alcohol and Alcoholism (Berlin, Sep 2-5, 2016)
September 22, 2016Together with Rainer Spanagel (Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim) and Henry Kranzler (University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine), Anton…
Read MoreMartin C. Michel’s reason to join PAASP
September 22, 2016In God we trust” is minted on each US coin. The evidence-based medicine movement has adapted this to “In God we…
Read MoreRetraction notice:
August 17, 2016‘…There was no response from the authors despite our attempts to reach them and request to clarify these discrepancies. More importantly,…
Read MoreRetraction analysis: Can GSP governance make a difference?
March 20, 2016During the past decade, the number of retractions increased dramatically, even when normalized by the total number of articles published in…
Read MoreWhat do people mean when saying that studies were done in a blinded fashion?
March 20, 2016We have evaluated blinding procedures at 12 academic labs, 7 contract research organisations (CROs), and 4 industrial pharmacology labs and obtained…
Read MoreMeeting Report ‘Critique as a professional service?’ Berlin, Dec 2015
February 20, 2016‘Critique as a professional service?’ was the title of the anniversary conference by the Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance (iFQ) held…
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