Over the last few centuries, the scientific method has established itself as a pretty useful tool. A key facet of scientific methodology is reproducibility. Essentially, good science should be easily ...

As the result of a mandate from Congress, the National Academies will explore the issues of reproducibility and replication in scientific and engineering research. The committee will explore what is ...

"If researchers want to build on knowledge, they should be able to replicate results to fully comprehend the research that has been done before," says Daniel J. Stekhoven, Ph.D., director of NEXUS ...

Findings from the Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) program—a collaborative effort involving 865 researchers—have been published in Nature as a collection of three papers ...

A recent study provides evidence that some results of behavioral experiments with insects cannot be fully reproduced. So far, possible reproducibility problems have been little discussed in this ...

Recognising the perceived poor levels of research reproducibility, the TIER2 project has set out to investigate reproducibility challenges across scientific domains in order to enhance trust, ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. Computational social scientists rely on code as the main instrument for doing ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American There are lots of ways to mess with the heads ...

A seven-year-long project in the US that analysed 3,900 claims from research papers in social sciences has revealed that results from about half the papers examined for reproducibility were precisely ...