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Temporal validity as meta-science
Research & Politics, 2023 The “credibility revolution” has forced quantitative social scientists to confront the limits of our methods for creating general knowledge. As a result, many practitioners aim to generate valid but local knowledge and then synthesize and apply that knowledge to predict what will happen in a target context. Positivist social science has until recently
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Perspectives on scientific error
Royal Society Open Science, 2023 Theoretical arguments and empirical investigations indicate that a high proportion of published findings do not replicate and are likely false. The current position paper provides a broad perspective on scientific error, which may lead to replication ...
D. van Ravenzwaaij +14 more
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ChatGPT identifies gender disparities in scientific peer review
eLife, 2023 The peer review process is a critical step in ensuring the quality of scientific research. However, its subjectivity has raised concerns. To investigate this issue, I examined over 500 publicly available peer review reports from 200 published ...
Jeroen PH Verharen
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Data availability, reusability, and analytic reproducibility: evaluating the impact of a mandatory open data policy at the journal Cognition [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Access to data is a critical feature of an efficient, progressive and ultimately self-correcting scientific ecosystem. But the extent to which in-principle benefits of data sharing are realized in practice is unclear.
Tom E. Hardwicke +13 more
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Psychologica Belgica, 2019 A crescendo of incidents have raised concerns about whether scientific practices in psychology may be suboptimal, sometimes leading to the publication, dissemination, and application of unreliable or misinterpreted findings.
Lee Jussim +3 more
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An Informal Internet Survey on the Current State of Consciousness Science
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 The scientific study of consciousness emerged as an organized field of research only a few decades ago. As empirical results have begun to enhance our understanding of consciousness, it is important to find out whether other factors, such as funding for ...
Matthias Michel +11 more
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Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2022 BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of scientific endeavors. The goal of this systematic review is to evaluate the quality of the research on physical activity (PA) behavior change and its potential to contribute to policy ...
Ralf Brand +4 more
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Estimating the reproducibility of social learning research published between 1955 and 2018
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 Reproducibility is integral to science, but difficult to achieve. Previous research has quantified low rates of data availability and results reproducibility across the biological and behavioural sciences.
Riana Minocher +4 more
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Sharing the Ideas of Meta – Science to Improve Quality of Research
Kathmandu University Medical Journal, 2014 Meta-Science is an interdisciplinary science which provides plenty of oppurtunity to cooperate on better understanding of micro-social dimension of science. It plays vital role to justify the conclusion, which helps to improve quality of research as well as to health services.
U R, Aryal, K, Khanal
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A theory and methodology to quantify knowledge [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 This article proposes quantitative answers to meta-scientific questions including ‘how much knowledge is attained by a research field?’, ‘how rapidly is a field making progress?’, ‘what is the expected reproducibility of a result?’, ‘how much knowledge ...
Daniele Fanelli
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