Factors associated with scientific misconduct and questionable research practices in health professions education [PDF]
Perspectives on Medical Education, 2019 Introduction Engaging in scientific misconduct and questionable research practices (QRPs) is a noted problem across fields, including health professions education (HPE).
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Evidence of questionable research practices in clinical prediction models [PDF]
BMC Medicine, 2023 Background Clinical prediction models are widely used in health and medical research. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) is a frequently used estimate to describe the discriminatory ability of a clinical prediction model ...
Nicole White +3 more
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Questionable research practices may have little effect on replicability [PDF]
eLife, 2020 This article examines why many studies fail to replicate statistically significant published results. We address this issue within a general statistical framework that also allows us to include various questionable research practices (QRPs) that are ...
Rolf Ulrich, Jeff Miller
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Questionable research practices in ecology and evolution. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 We surveyed 807 researchers (494 ecologists and 313 evolutionary biologists) about their use of Questionable Research Practices (QRPs), including cherry picking statistically significant results, p hacking, and hypothesising after the results are known ...
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Questionable research practices among italian research psychologists. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 A survey in the United States revealed that an alarmingly large percentage of university psychologists admitted having used questionable research practices that can contaminate the research literature with false positive and biased findings. We conducted
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Investigating the links between questionable research practices, scientific norms and organisational culture [PDF]
Research Integrity and Peer ReviewBackground This study investigates the determinants of engagement in questionable research practices (QRPs), focusing on both individual-level factors (such as scholarly field, commitment to scientific norms, gender, contract type, and career stage) and ...
Robin Brooker, Nick Allum
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Testing an active intervention to deter researchers’ use of questionable research practices [PDF]
Research Integrity and Peer Review, 2019 Introduction In this study, we tested a simple, active “ethical consistency” intervention aimed at reducing researchers’ endorsement of questionable research practices (QRPs).
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Psychology's Questionable Research Fundamentals (QRFs): Key problems in quantitative psychology and psychological measurement beyond Questionable Research Practices (QRPs) [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyPsychology's crises (e.g., replicability, generalisability) are currently believed to derive from Questionable Research Practices (QRPs), thus scientific misconduct.
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Scientific misconduct, questionable research practices, and research climate: empirical approaches to integrity problems [PDF]
Research Integrity and Peer ReviewEmpirical research on scientific misconduct and questionable research practices (QRPs) has increasingly adopted a systemic perspective, emphasising research climate, supervision, and organisational conditions.
Serhii Nazarovets
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Individual, institutional, and scientific environment factors associated with questionable research practices in the reporting of messages and conclusions in scientific health services research publications [PDF]
BMC Health Services Research, 2020 Background Health Services Research findings (HSR) reported in scientific publications may become part of the decision-making process on healthcare. This study aimed to explore associations between researcher’s individual, institutional, and scientific ...
Reinie G. Gerrits +5 more
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