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Public availability of published research data in high-impact journals.
Background There is increasing interest to make primary data from published research publicly available. We aimed to assess the current status of making research data... -
Why Has the Number of Scientific Retractions Increased?
Background The number of retracted scientific publications has risen sharply, but it is unclear whether this reflects an increase in publication of flawed articles or an... -
Trial registration numbers are underreported in biomedical publications.
CONTEXT: Since September 2005, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) has required that randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are prospectively registered... -
Systematic Review of the Empirical Evidence of Study Publication Bias and Out...
BACKGROUND: The increased use of meta-analysis in systematic reviews of healthcare interventions has highlighted several types of bias that can arise during the completion of a... -
A Comprehensive Survey of Retracted Articles from the Scholarly Literature
Background The number of retracted scholarly articles has risen precipitously in recent years. Past surveys of the retracted literature each limited their scope to articles in... -
Cooperation between Referees and Authors Increases Peer Review Accuracy
Peer review is fundamentally a cooperative process between scientists in a community who agree to review each other's work in an unbiased fashion. Peer review is the foundation... -
If we share data, will anyone use them? Data sharing and reuse in the long ta...
Research on practices to share and reuse data will inform the design of infrastructure to support data collection, management, and discovery in the long tail of science and... -
Imbalance in Individual Researcher's Peer Review Activities Quantified for Fo...
Researchers contribute to the scientific peer review system by providing reviews, and "withdraw" from it by submitting manuscripts that are subsequently reviewed. So far as we... -
An Empirical Analysis of Overlap Publication in Chinese Language and English ...
BACKGROUND: There are a number of sound justifications for publishing nearly identical information in Chinese and English medical journals, assuming several conditions are met.... -
Toward Reproducible Computational Research: An Empirical Analysis of Data and...
Journal policy on research data and code availability is an important part of the ongoing shift toward publishing reproducible computational science. This article extends the... -
On the Lack of Consensus over the Meaning of Openness: An Empirical Study
This study set out to explore the views and motivations of those involved in a number of recent and current advocacy efforts (such as open science, computational provenance, and... -
Fate of Clinical Research Studies after Ethical Approval – Follow-Up of Study...
BACKGROUND:Many clinical studies are ultimately not fully published in peer-reviewed journals. Underreporting of clinical research is wasteful and can result in biased estimates... -
Bibliometric Evidence for a Hierarchy of the Sciences
The hypothesis of a Hierarchy of the Sciences, first formulated in the 19(th) century, predicts that, moving from simple and general phenomena (e.g. particle dynamics) to... -
Why Most Biomedical Findings Echoed by Newspapers Turn Out to be False: The C...
Context Because positive biomedical observations are more often published than those reporting no effect, initial observations are often refuted or attenuated by subsequent... -
The role of gender in scholarly authorship.
Gender disparities appear to be decreasing in academia according to a number of metrics, such as grant funding, hiring, acceptance at scholarly journals, and productivity, and... -
Inappropriate Fiddling with Statistical Analyses to Obtain a Desirable P-valu...
Much has been written regarding p-values below certain thresholds (most notably 0.05) denoting statistical significance and the tendency of such p-values to be more readily... -
A Plea for Neutral Comparison Studies in Computational Sciences
In computational science literature including, e.g., bioinformatics, computational statistics or machine learning, most published articles are devoted to the development of "new... -
Mine, Yours, Ours? Sharing Data on Human Genetic Variation
The achievement of a robust, effective and responsible form of data sharing is currently regarded as a priority for biological and bio-medical research. Empirical evaluations of... -
A Systematic Review of Research on the Meaning, Ethics and Practices of Autho...
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this systematic review was to evaluate evidence about authorship issues and provide synthesis of research on authorship across all research fields.... -
The Transformative Nature Of Transparency In Research Funding
This Perspective extends an ongoing debate on transparency in research funding, advocating the exploration of more radical approaches.
