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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
Franca Agnoli, Jelte M Wicherts, Coosje L S Veldkamp, Paolo Albiero, Roberto Cubelli   +4 more
doaj   +8 more sources

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 ...
Hannah Fraser, Tim Parker, Shinichi Nakagawa, Ashley Barnett, Fiona Fidler   +4 more
doaj   +10 more sources

Questionable research practices of medical and dental faculty in Pakistan – a confession [PDF]

BMC Medical Ethics
Purpose Intellectual honesty and integrity are the cornerstones of conducting any form of research. Over the last few years, scholars have shown great concerns over questionable research practices (QRPs) in academia.
Ayesha Fahim, Aysha Sadaf, Fahim Haider Jafari, Kashif Siddique, Ahsan Sethi   +4 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Bestiary of Questionable Research Practices in Psychology [PDF]

Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
Questionable research practices (QRPs) pose a significant threat to the quality of scientific research. However, historically, they remain ill-defined, and a comprehensive list of QRPs is lacking.
Tamás Nagy, Jane Hergert, Mahmoud M. Elsherif, Lukas Wallrich, Kathleen Schmidt, Tal Waltzer, Jason W. Payne, Biljana Gjoneska, Yashvin Seetahul, Y. Andre Wang, Daniel Scharfenberg, Gabriella Tyson, Yu-Fang Yang, Aleksandrina Skvortsova, Samuel Alarie, Katherine Graves, Lukas K. Sotola, David Moreau, Eva Rubínová   +18 more
doaj   +9 more sources

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, Rex Parsons, Gary Collins, Adrian Barnett   +3 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Investigating the links between questionable research practices, scientific norms and organisational culture [PDF]

Research Integrity and Peer Review
Background 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
doaj   +3 more sources

Psychology's Questionable Research Fundamentals (QRFs): Key problems in quantitative psychology and psychological measurement beyond Questionable Research Practices (QRPs) [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
Psychology's crises (e.g., replicability, generalisability) are currently believed to derive from Questionable Research Practices (QRPs), thus scientific misconduct.
Jana Uher, Jan Ketil Arnulf, Jan Ketil Arnulf, Paul T. Barrett, Moritz Heene, Jörg-Henrik Heine, Jack Martin, Lucas B. Mazur, Lucas B. Mazur, Marek McGann, Robert J. Mislevy, Craig Speelman, Aaro Toomela, Ron Weber, Ron Weber   +14 more
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Questionable Research Practices and Misconduct Among Norwegian Researchers. [PDF]

Sci Eng Ethics, 2021
AbstractThis article presents results from the national survey conducted in 2018 for the project Research Integrity in Norway (RINO). A total of 31,206 questionnaires were sent out to Norwegian researchers by e-mail, and 7291 responses were obtained.
Kaiser M, Drivdal L, Hjellbrekke J, Ingierd H, Rekdal OB.   +4 more
europepmc   +8 more sources

Questionable research practices in engineering research

International Journal of Information Systems and Project Management
Misconduct in science is often associated with data fabrication, data falsification, and plagiarism. However, other practices are far more frequent and prevalent.
Ana Alice Baptista, Filipe Pereira
doaj   +3 more sources

Research misconduct and questionable research practices form a continuum [PDF]

Accountability in Research, 2023
Research data mismanagement (RDMM) is a serious threat to accountability, reproducibility, and re-use of data. In a recent article in this journal, it was argued that RDMM can take two forms: intentional research misconduct or unintentional questionable research practice (QRP).
Bouter, Lex, Bouter, Lex; id_orcid
core   +5 more sources