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Reproducibility: A tragedy of errors
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“Similar errors continue today, are sometimes severe enough to call entire studies into question (11), and may occur with nontrivial frequency (12–14).”
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“As we reported elsewhere (11), the process of getting errors corrected, even when going through proper channels with journals, is often some combination of absurdly slow, inept, confusing, costly, time-intensive, and unsatisfying.”
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“Much of the difficulty to achieve the desirable clinical translation may stem from lack of reproducibility and from biases in the early stages of the translational pipeline3,4.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Allison, D. B., Brown, A. W., George, B. J., & Kaiser, K. A.
- Affiliations
- University of Alabama at Birmingham (US)
- Corresponding author
- Allison, David B.
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2016-02-03
- Volume
- 530
- Issue
- 7588
- Pages
- 27-29
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- PMC
- PMC4831566
- OpenAlex
- W2263593861
- Cited by
- 255
- References
- 10
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 48 · 2023: 19 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 29 · 2020: 30 · 2019: 27 · 2018: 25 · 2017: 26 · 2016: 22
- FWCI
- 175.39
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (P30DK056336)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Academic Writing and Publishing
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Academic Publishing and Open Access
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Publishing and Scholarly Communication
- Keywords
- reproducibility, research errors, peer review, scholarly publishing, research integrity, error correction
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Periodicals as Topic, Research Design, Retraction of Publication as Topic, Reproducibility of Results, Peer Review, Research, Access to Information, Editorial Policies
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