Commentary

Barriers to reproducibility: misalignment of career incentives and open science best practices

Colleen Mills-Finnerty

We are on the precipice of a sea change in how research is conducted. Funder mandates and changing expectations around scientific reproducibility have resulted in a new set of open science best practices (OSBP) for research. These practices include, but are not limited to, data and code sharing,…

The Center for Reproducible Science at the University of Zurich

Eva Furrer & Leonhard Held

Science communication of reproducibility

Sara E. Jager & Katja Kaurinkoski

The importance of reproducibility is a widely discussed topic within academia, and there is an increased awareness about the issues in reproducibility, as we start to more actively tackle it within different fields of the scientific community. Outside of academia, however, reproducibility isn’t as…

Five best practices for fMRI research: Towards a biologically grounded understanding of mental phenomena

Colleen Mills-Finnerty

The replication crisis in science has not spared functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) research. A range of issues including insufficient control of false positives, code bugs, concern regarding generalizability and replicability of findings, inadequate characterization of physiological…

We need another 3R rule: repeat, repeat, repeat!

Annika Hulten & Saara Rannanpää

There is consensus within the scientific community that replication studies are scientifically sound and bring added value and reliability to any discovery. It is also widely acknowledged that replications are not as common as they perhaps should be. The reasons for this vary depending on the…

Preprints: a tool and a vehicle towards greater reproducibility in the life sciences

Iratxe Puebla

We have seen a number of initiatives arise in recent years aiming to tackle concerns around the reproducibility of published findings. Researchers in the life sciences now have a number of tools at their disposal to boost the reproducibility of their science and preprints have emerged as an…

How research reproducibility challenges librarians’ skill sets. A French librarian’s perspective

Sabrina Granger

Reproducible research requires to dive into a wide range of subjects (e.g.: statistics, study design, scientific computing) that are quite far from French librarians practices and/or initial training. Librarians do have a technical expertise, but horror stories pinpoint that even seasoned experts…

Reproducibility of behavioral phenotypes in mouse models - a short history with critical and practical notes

Vootele Voikar

Progress in pre-clinical research is built on reproducible findings, yet reproducibility has different dimensions and even meanings. Indeed, the terms reproducibility, repeatability, and replicability are often used interchangeably, although each has a distinct definition. Moreover, reproducibility…