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1,017 randomized clinical trials (RCTs) approved between 2000 and 2003 were discontinued prematurely, and 44% remained unpublished at a median of 12 years follow-up.
Benjamin Speich +2 more
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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
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Sports Metaresearch: An Emerging Discipline of Sport Science and Medicine [PDF]
Sports MedicineInadequacies in the conduct and quality of research are well established across many research domains, including sport science and medicine. Metaresearch—the practice of performing research on research—is presented as a practical vehicle for improving ...
John Warmenhoven +2 more
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A metaresearch study revealed susceptibility of Covid-19 treatment research to white hat bias: first, do no harm [PDF]
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 2021 To investigate the presence of white hat bias in Covid-19 treatment research by evaluating the effects of citation and reporting bias.Citation bias was investigated by assessing the degree of agreement between evidence provided by a remdesivir randomized controlled trial and its citing articles.
Ioannis Bellos
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Metaresearch for Evaluating Reproducibility in Ecology and Evolution [PDF]
BioScience, 2017 Recent replication projects in other disciplines have uncovered disturbingly low levels of reproducibility, suggesting that those research literatures may contain unverifiable claims. The conditions contributing to irreproducibility in other disciplines are also present in ecology.
Fiona Fidler +2 more
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Describing the landscape of nutrition- and diet-related randomized controlled trials: metaresearch study of protocols published between 2012 and 2022 [PDF]
American Journal of Clinical NutritionPublishing protocols promotes transparency and reproducibility. The scope and methods of protocols for nutrition- and diet-related randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have not been investigated yet.This study aims to map the landscape of nutrition- and diet-related interventions research.We conducted a metaresearch of nutrition-and diet-related RCT ...
FlÁvia Silva +2 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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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.
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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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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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