Is something rotten in the state of Denmark? Cross-national evidence for widespread involvement but not systematic use of questionable research practices across all fields of research. [PDF]
PLoS OneQuestionable research practices (QRP) are believed to be widespread, but empirical assessments are generally restricted to a few types of practices. Furthermore, conceptual confusion is rife with use and prevalence of QRPs often being confused as the ...
Schneider JW +6 more
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A taxonomy of questionable research practices in quantitative humanities
Abstract A growing body of research has begun to address ethical issues in the context of Applied Linguistics (e.g., De Costa, 2016; Isbell et al., 2022). One of the messages inherent in this line of inquiry is that ethical concerns are embedded throughout the research cycle from study conceptualization to realization ...
Luke Plonsky +5 more
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Grant writing and grant peer review as questionable research practices. [PDF]
F1000Res, 2021 A large part of governmental research funding is currently distributed through the peer review of project proposals. In this paper, we argue that such funding systems incentivize and even force researchers to violate five moral values, each of which is ...
Conix S, De Block A, Vaesen K.
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The Use of Questionable Research Practices to Survive in Academia Examined With Expert Elicitation, Prior-Data Conflicts, Bayes Factors for Replication Effects, and the Bayes Truth Serum. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2021 The popularity and use of Bayesian methods have increased across many research domains. The current article demonstrates how some less familiar Bayesian methods can be used.
van de Schoot R +7 more
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F1000Research, 2023 Background: Reports of questionable or detrimental research practices (QRPs) call into question the reliability of scientific evidence and the trustworthiness of research.
Ivan Buljan +14 more
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Pitfalls and potentials in simulation studies: Questionable research practices in comparative simulation studies allow for spurious claims of superiority of any method [PDF]
Biometrical journal. Biometrische Zeitschrift, 2022 Comparative simulation studies are workhorse tools for benchmarking statistical methods. As with other empirical studies, the success of simulation studies hinges on the quality of their design, execution, and reporting.
Samuel Pawel, Lucas Kook, K. Reeve
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Evading Open Science: The Black Box of Student Data Collection
Social Psychological Bulletin, 2023 While Open Science has arguably initiated positive changes at some stages of the research process (e.g., increasing transparency through preregistration), problematic behaviors during data collection are still almost impossible to detect and pose a great
Tobias Ludwig +3 more
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Flexibility in reaction time analysis: many roads to a false positive? [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 In the present article, we explore the influence of undisclosed flexibility in the analysis of reaction times (RTs). RTs entail some degrees of freedom of their own, due to their skewed distribution, the potential presence of outliers and the ...
Luis Morís Fernández +1 more
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, 2021 Animal cognition researchers’ self-reported use of questionable research practices, and their estimated use of questionable research practices (QRPs) by other researchers in the field.
Ljerka Ostojić (3294450) +2 more
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Leaving academia: PhD attrition and unhealthy research environments
PLoS ONE, 2022 This study investigates PhD candidates’ (N = 391) perceptions about their research environment at a Dutch university in terms of the research climate, (un)ethical supervisory practices, and questionable research practices.
Andrea Kis +4 more
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