The costs of reproducibility
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Improving the reproducibility of neuroscience research is of great concern, especially to early-career researchers (ECRs). Here I outline the potential costs for ECRs in adopting practices to improve reproducibility. I highlight the ways in which ECRs can achieve their career goals while doing better science and the need for established researchers to support them in these efforts.
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Resting-state functional connectivity for individual links in people is not robust with small samples, especially in populations with psychiatric disorders.
“Indeed, power analyses show that resting-state functional connectivity for individual links in people is not robust with small samples (Button et al., 2013; Poldrack, 2019), especially in populations with psychiatric disorders, as we also have found.”
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- Authors
- Poldrack, R. A.
- Affiliations
- Stanford University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Poldrack, Russell A.
- ORCID
- Poldrack, Russell A.
- Venue
- Neuron
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2019-01
- Volume
- 101
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 11-14
- ISSN
- 0896-6273 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2908227887
- Cited by
- 84
- References
- 8
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 26 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 14.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Neuron (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Academic Publishing and Open Access
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Research Data Management Practices
- Keywords
- reproducibility, early-career researchers, scientific careers, mentoring, scientific rigor, brain research
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Neurosciences, Research Personnel, Reproducibility of Results, Biomedical Research
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