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Volume 4 Issue 2

  • 23 December 2024
  • 5 articles

5 articles

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Editorial

Editorial from our Incoming Editor in Chief: Introducing Open Peer Review, Streamlined Review, and a Trial of the Registered Report Format

Sarahanne Field, Stefan D.M. Gaillard, David Joachim Grüning & Alex Job Visser

In most industries, error is a problem. Take, for instance, the aviation industry. An error in the calculation of a plane’s gross weight could be catastrophic, as how much a plane weighs directly influences how it needs to be configured for take-off and landing. Countless fatal aviation accidents…

doi:10.36850/1367-415fRead
Meta-Research

Type I Error Rates are Not Usually Inflated

Mark Rubin

The inflation of Type I error rates is thought to be one of the causes of the replication crisis. Questionable research practices such as p -hacking are thought to inflate Type I error rates above their nominal level, leading to unexpectedly high levels of false positives in the literature and,…

doi:10.36850/4d35-44bdRead
Empirical

The Impact of Incentivization on Recruitment, Retention, Data Quality, and Participant Characteristics in Ecological Momentary Assessments

Helge Giese & Laura M König

Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) study participation is usually incentivized using monetary (e.g., fixed or performance-contingent payment) or non-monetary (e.g., feedback) compensation. This study investigates the impact of this incentivization on recruitment, retention, data quality, and…

doi:10.36850/28b4-4f59Read
Empirical

Preclinical Assessment of a Cannabinoid CB2 Receptor Antagonist in a Murine Model of Cerebral Malaria

Ana Borrego Escartín, María Gómez-Cañas, Soledad García Gómez-Heras, Patricia Marín-García, Javier Fernández-Ruiz & Amalia Diez

Malaria is a most important parasitic disease due to its highest impact worldwide. It results in around 200 million clinical cases and 0,5-1 million deaths per year, mainly due to cerebral malaria (CM), a life-threatening neurological syndrome that predominantly affects predominantly children under…

doi:10.36850/e10Read
Meta-Research

Three Persistent Myths about Open Science

Moin Syed

Knowledge and implementation of open science principles and behaviors remains uneven across the sciences, despite over 10 years of intensive education and advocacy. One reason for the slow and uneven progress of the open science movement is a set of closely held myths about the implications of open…

doi:10.36850/mr11Read