ReviewBMC biology2015
Replicating research in ecology and evolution: feasibility, incentives, and the cost-benefit conundrum.
Review in BMC biology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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33 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- How social relationships shape moral wrongness judgments.Nature communications · 2021Article
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- Replication studies in the clinical decision support literature-frequency, fidelity, and impact.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2021Article
- Circumstances of overdose among suburban women who use opioids: Extending an urban analysis informed by drug, set, and setting.The International journal on drug policy · 2021Article
- Hemipteran defensive odors trigger predictable color biases in jumping spider predators.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Nutrition as an etiological factor causing diseases in endangered huemul deer.BMC research notes · 2020Article
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Abstract
We believe that replicating studies in ecology and evolution is extremely valuable, but replication within species and systems is troublingly rare, and even 'quasi-replications' in different systems are often insufficient. We make a case for supporting multiple types of replications and point out that the current incentive structure needs to change if ecologists and evolutionary biologist are to value scientific replication sufficiently.
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