The need for a new keyword — “Trial registry-metaresearch” — to track certain uses of clinical trial registry records [PDF]
Trials, 2023 Public clinical trial registries contain a large amount of information about a large number of trials. Academic researchers have conducted various analyses using such data.
Gayatri Saberwal, Saberwal Gayatri
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Nonregistration, discontinuation, and nonpublication of randomized trials: A repeated metaresearch analysis [PDF]
PLoS Medicine, 2022 BackgroundWe previously found that 25% of 1,017 randomized clinical trials (RCTs) approved between 2000 and 2003 were discontinued prematurely, and 44% remained unpublished at a median of 12 years follow-up.
Edris Nury +2 more
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Law and psychology must think critically about effect sizes [PDF]
Discover Psychology, 2023 This comment examines a threat to the development of law and psychology as a “public science” (i.e., one that goes beyond theory to address important issues in society), a failure to think critically about effect sizes. Effect sizes estimate the strength
Jason M. Chin
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Journal policies and editors’ opinions on peer review [PDF]
eLife, 2020 Peer review practices differ substantially between journals and disciplines. This study presents the results of a survey of 322 editors of journals in ecology, economics, medicine, physics and psychology.
Daniel G Hamilton +3 more
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What goes in a funder’s Narrative CV?: A Scoping Review [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] [PDF]
F1000ResearchNarrative Curriculum Vitae (NCVs) are a type of CV focusing on written descriptions of researchers’ skills, experiences, collaborations, and achievements, which seek to promote more equitable and responsible research assessments.
Gabriela Ferreira Kalkmann +8 more
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The transparency of quantitative empirical legal research published in highly ranked law journals (2018–2020): an observational study [version 2; peer review: 3 approved] [PDF]
F1000Research, 2023 Background Scientists are increasingly concerned with making their work easy to verify and build upon. Associated practices include sharing data, materials, and analytic scripts, and preregistering protocols. This shift towards increased transparency and
Sarah Schiavone +7 more
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A metric of knowledge as information compression reflects reproducibility predictions for biomedical experiments [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceForecasting the reproducibility of research findings is one of the key challenges of metascience. Above-chance predictions have mainly been achieved by pooling the subjective ratings of experts, and how these predictions are formed remains to be ...
Daniele Fanelli +3 more
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Expanding the data Ark: an attempt to make the data from highly cited social science papers publicly available [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceAccess to scientific data can enable independent reuse and verification; however, most data are not available and become increasingly irrecoverable over time.
Coby Dulitzki +3 more
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Cataloguing and theorising open research practices in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Problematising and diversifying ‘Open Science’ [version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] [PDF]
F1000ResearchBackground Discourses of ‘Open Science’ have been criticised for privileging the quantitative and positivist methodologies of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) research at the expense of qualitative, interpretive, critical ...
Miranda Barnes +3 more
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Is biomedical research self-correcting? Modelling insights on the persistence of spurious science [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceThe reality that volumes of published biomedical research are not reproducible is an increasingly recognized problem. Spurious results reduce trustworthiness of reported science, increasing research waste.
David Robert Grimes
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