Errors can be prevented from reoccurring by requiring publication of study data (without identifying details) and via replication and reevaluation studies In 1998, an author published a well-known ...

After eight years, a project that tried to reproduce the results of key cancer biology studies has finally concluded. And its findings suggest that like research in the social sciences, cancer ...

On Monday, the journal Nature released a report from Nanjing University researchers that had attempted to replicate an earlier paper that described a compound that superconducted at room temperature ...

The reproducibility crisis imposes new challenges for the scientific community, but what are the obligations of journals in solving the problem? Decades of challenging research during the 1900s ...

Brian A. Nosek is co-founder and executive director of the Center for Open Science, Charlottesville, Virginia; and professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA. The two ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. It is the latter – the data mining of commercially available and open ...