Understanding and tackling the reproducibility crisis – Why we need to study scientists’ trust in data
- In the life sciences, there is an ongoing discussion about a perceived ‘reproducibility crisis’. However, it remains unclear to which extent the perceived lack of reproducibility is the consequence of issues that can be tackled and to which extent it may be the consequence of unrealistic expectations of the technical level of reproducibility. Large-scale, multi-institutional experimental replication studies are very cost- and time-intensive. This Perspective suggests an alternative, complementary approach: meta-research using sociological and philosophical methodologies to examine researcher trust in data. An improved understanding of the criteria used by researchers to judge data reliability will provide crucial, initial evidence on the actual scale of the reproducibility crisis and on measures to tackle it.
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| Author: | Michael CalnanORCiDGND, Simon KirchinORCiDGND, David L. RobertsGND, Mark N. WassORCiD, Martin MichaelisORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-815681 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phrs.2023.107043 |
| ISSN: | 1043-6618 |
| Parent Title (English): | Pharmacological research |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Place of publication: | Amsterdam |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2023/12/21 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2023/12/20 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2024/04/10 |
| Volume: | 199.2024 |
| Issue: | 107043 |
| Article Number: | 107043 |
| Page Number: | 3 |
| Institutes: | Medizin |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
| 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit | |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
