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In 1936 refereeing was not a universal practice at the w... scientific journals. It was not even a universal practic... Review. Einstein’s previous submission to that journal... Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paper, was not sent out fo...
So Einstein

A scientific result is not truly established until it is... confirmed. This is one of the tenets of experimental sci...

Welcome to the Journal of Articles in Support of the Nul... the past other journals and reviewers have exhibited a b... articles that did not reject the null hypothesis. We see... offering an outlet for experiments that do not reach the... significanc

When writing the abstracts for journal articles, most sc... similar advice: keep it short, dry, and simple. But a ne... 1 million abstracts finds that many of these tips backfi... abstracts cited less than their long, flowery, and jargo...

Literature Reviews
What this handout is about...
This handout will explain what a Literature Review i ...

“My name is Erasto B Mpemba, and I am going to tel... discovery, which was due to misusing a refrigerator.”
With those words, Tanzanian student Erasto Mpemba entere ...

Modern scientific and engineering research relies heavil... programs, which analyze experimental data and run simula... would be hard-pressed to find a scientific paper (outsid...
Reproducibility refers to the ability to repeat some wor ...
Reproducibi

A group of Cambridge computer scientists have set a new ... openness and reproducibility in research by sharing the ... data and 20,000 lines of code behind their latest result... unprecedented degree of openness in a peer-reviewed publ... researchers

Drawing on the latest data and over 130 interviews with ... policymakers, entrepreneurs and academics, this report e... policies, institutions and industries that are driving r... innovation. It measures how India's research strengths a...
Innovation

Papers · your personal library of research
Repository of knowledge
Search article repositories and download articles withou ...
All your papers at a glance
... Full screen reading, article notes

But does peer review `work' at all? A systematic review ... available evidence on peer review concluded that `the pr... review is based on faith in its effects, rather than on ... answer to the question on whether peer review works depe... `What is pe

There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false. The probability that a research claim is true may depend on study power and bias, the number of other studies on the same question, and, importantly, the ratio of true to

As John Dewey put it, there is no question of theory ver... rather of intelligent practice versus uninformed, stupid...

A command line and web app to find the papers you need t... paper published. Ever tried to get a paper published onl... reference papers you know were written by the programme ... suck up to get a paper accepted in your field?
Now with Cite The PC, it'

The launch of the clinicaltrials.gov registry in 2000 se... striking impact on reported trial results, according to ... that many researchers have been talking about online in ...
A 1997 US law mandated the registry’s creation, requir ...

SAGE Publishers is retracting 60 articles from the Journ... Control after an investigation revealed a “peer review... ring” involving a professor in Taiwan.

Every now and then a scholarly journal retracts an artic... errors or outright fraud. In academic circles, and somet... retraction is a big deal.
Now comes word of a journal retracting 60 articles at once.

Science Exchange is an online marketplace for science ex... is to make it easier for researchers to access core reso... institutions. Our first product, ScienceExchange.com bri... research scientists looking to outsource experiments wit... at core fac

Data from a study of nearly 2,000 people seemed to show ... moderates saw shades of grey more accurately than did ei... right-wing extremists. “The hypothesis was sexy,” he...
But then reality intervened. Sensitive to controversies ...
It turned o

But then reality intervened. Sensitive to controversies over reproducibility, Motyl and his adviser, Brian Nosek, dec... the study. With extra data, the P value came out as 0.59... to the conventional level of significance, 0.05. The eff... disappeared

An academic scientist’s professional success depends o... Publishing norms emphasize novel, positive results. As s... incentives encourage design, analysis, and reporting dec... positive results and ignore negative results. Prior repo... these incen

As a group, scientists are not widely admired for their ... small extent, this derives from their insistence on the ... boogeyman of basic composition classes. Nevertheless, th... defenders: Two experts in scientific style recently took... debate the

But as access to the published results of scholarly rese... issues around making the data that is summarized in thos... available are coming to the fore. The White House memora... a certainty. Sharing the results of scientific research ... unveiling a

In a recent blog post, Ikka warns that it is all too eac... ‘trapped’ in mindsets and personal routines that shu... potential serendipitous experiences. I think we’ve all... traps at some point in our lives; being too busy to be a...
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This website is for people involved in applied social re...
Some highlights of what is available:
Knowledge Base The Knowledge Base
An online hypertext textbook on applied social research ...
... g the use of the method, and information about software.

Policy statement aims to halt missteps in the quest for ...