Addressing Reproducibility: Peer Review, Impact Factors, Checklists, Guidelines, and Reproducibility Initiatives

TY - CHAP

T1 - Addressing Reproducibility

T2 - Peer Review, Impact Factors, Checklists, Guidelines, and Reproducibility Initiatives

AU - Williams, Michael

AU - Mullane, Kevin

AU - Curtis, Michael J.

PY - 2017/10/10

Y1 - 2017/10/10

N2 - The biomedical research community has identified several approaches to address concerns regarding the lack of reproducibility in research. These include: improving the classical peer review (CPR) process via alternatives that can improve transparency and replace/supplement CPR stakeholder biases; open access publishing forums; alternatives to the Journal Impact Factor as improved metrics for researcher productivity; guidelines and checklists to improve the quality, transparency and reporting of data; and formal Reproducibility Initiatives (RIs) to replace the seminal process of scientific self- correction. While well intended, many of these initiatives have added to the existing problems while creating new ones. Furthermore, the outcomes from the RIs reported to date have been uniformly disappointing. Measures to improve reproducibility must focus on: improving training in best practices in experimental design, execution, and analysis that will aid in avoiding the persistence of behaviors detrimental to reproducibility while encouraging responsible research conduct.

AB - The biomedical research community has identified several approaches to address concerns regarding the lack of reproducibility in research. These include: improving the classical peer review (CPR) process via alternatives that can improve transparency and replace/supplement CPR stakeholder biases; open access publishing forums; alternatives to the Journal Impact Factor as improved metrics for researcher productivity; guidelines and checklists to improve the quality, transparency and reporting of data; and formal Reproducibility Initiatives (RIs) to replace the seminal process of scientific self- correction. While well intended, many of these initiatives have added to the existing problems while creating new ones. Furthermore, the outcomes from the RIs reported to date have been uniformly disappointing. Measures to improve reproducibility must focus on: improving training in best practices in experimental design, execution, and analysis that will aid in avoiding the persistence of behaviors detrimental to reproducibility while encouraging responsible research conduct.

KW - Guidelines. checklists

KW - Journal Impact Factor

KW - Peer review

KW - Reproducibility initiatives

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85052126619&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/B978-0-12-804725-5.00005-7

DO - 10.1016/B978-0-12-804725-5.00005-7

M3 - Chapter

SN - 9780128047255

SP - 197

EP - 306

BT - Research in the Biomedical Sciences

PB - Elsevier

ER -