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Computation of adherence to medication and visualization of medication histor...
Adherence to medications is an important indicator of the quality of medication management and impacts on health outcomes and cost-effectiveness of healthcare delivery.... -
The PLOS ONE collection on machine learning in health and biomedicine: Toward...
Recent years have seen a surge of studies in machine learning in health and biomedicine, driven by digitalization of healthcare environments and increasingly accessible computer... -
Reliability and Validity of a Point-of-Care Sural Nerve Conduction Device for...
BACKGROUND: Confirmation of diabetic sensorimotor polyneuropathy (DSP) relies on standard nerve conduction studies (NCS) performed in specialized clinics. We explored the... -
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... -
Reproducibility of individual effect sizes in meta-analyses in psychology
To determine the reproducibility of psychological meta-analyses, we investigated whether we could reproduce 500 primary study effect sizes drawn from 33 published meta-analyses... -
LabTrove: A Lightweight, Web Based, Laboratory "Blog" as a Route towards a Ma...
BackgroundThe electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) has the potential to replace the paper notebook with a marked-up digital record that can be searched and shared. However, it... -
Scientific productivity: An exploratory study of metrics and incentives.
Competitive pressure to maximize the current bibliometric measures of productivity is jeopardizing the integrity of the scientific literature. Efforts are underway to address... -
Measuring Nepotism through Shared Last Names: Are We Really Moving from Opini...
Nepotistic practices are detrimental for academia. An analysis of shared last names among academics was recently proposed to measure the diffusion of nepotism, the results of... -
The Researchers’ View of Scientific Rigor—Survey on the Conduct and Reporting...
Reproducibility in animal research is alarmingly low, and a lack of scientific rigor has been proposed as a major cause. Systematic reviews found low reporting rates of measures... -
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... -
Reproducibility of Frankfort Horizontal Plane on 3D Multi-Planar Reconstructe...
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine the accuracy and reliability of Frankfort horizontal plane identification using displays of multi-planar reconstructed MRI... -
Statistical Reporting Errors and Collaboration on Statistical Analyses in Psy...
Statistical analysis is error prone. A best practice for researchers using statistics would therefore be to share data among co-authors, allowing double-checking of executed... -
Reproducibility and prognostic value of WHO1973 and WHO2004 grading systems i...
Background: European treatment guidelines of TaT1 urinary bladder urothelial carcinomas depend highly on stage and WHO1973-grade but grading reproducibility is wanting. The... -
Data sharing in PLOS ONE: An analysis of Data Availability Statements
A number of publishers and funders, including PLOS, have recently adopted policies requiring researchers to share the data underlying their results and publications. Such... -
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... -
Enhancing reproducibility in scientific computing: Metrics and registry for S...
Here we present Singularity Hub, a framework to build and deploy Singularity containers for mobility of compute, and the singularity-python software with novel metrics for... -
On the Reproducibility of TCGA Ovarian Cancer MicroRNA Profiles
Dysregulated microRNA (miRNA) expression is a well-established feature of human cancer. However, the role of specific miRNAs in determining cancer outcomes remains unclear.... -
Assessing the impact of introductory programming workshops on the computation...
AbstractIntroductionAs biomedical research becomes more data-intensive, computational reproducibility is a growing area of importance. Unfortunately, many biomedical researchers... -
Editorial Decisions May Perpetuate Belief in Invalid Research Findings
Social psychology and related disciplines are seeing a resurgence of interest in replication, as well as actual replication efforts. But prior work suggests that even a clear...
