Phys.org April 30, 2024 An international team of researchers (Morocco, France, Australia, Sweden) presented an investigation of the ethics and legal aspects of 456 studies published France. They identified a wide range of issues with the stated research authorization and ethics of the published studies with respect to the Institutional Review Board and the approval presented. Among the studies investigated, 248 were conducted with the same ethics approval number, even though the subjects, samples, and countries of investigation were different. Thirty-nine did not even contain a reference to the ethics approval number while they presented research on human beings. They […]
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More than 2 million research papers have disappeared from the Internet
Nature March 4, 2024 A researcher at the University of London tested 7,438,037 works labelled with digital object identifiers (DOIs) and found that one-quarter of scholarly articles are not being properly archived and preserved indicating that systems to preserve papers online have failed to keep pace with the growth of research output. The sample was made up of a random selection of up to 1,000 registered to each member organization. Twenty-eight percent of these works — more than two million articles — did not appear in a major digital archive. Small publishers are at higher risk of failing to preserve […]
The ‘Replication Crisis’ Could Be Worse Than We Thought, New Analysis Reveals
Science Alert May 25, 2021 A team of researchers at UC San Diego used publicly available data to show that published papers in top psychology, economics, and general interest journals that fail to replicate are cited more than those that replicate. This difference in citation does not change after the publication of the failure to replicate. Only 12% of post replication citations of nonreplicable findings acknowledge the replication failure. Existing evidence also shows that experts predict well which papers will be replicated. Given this prediction, why are nonreplicable papers accepted for publication in the first place? A possible answer is […]