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ArticleThe EMBO journal2015

Reproducibility blues.

Bernd Pulverer

Abstract readEditorial
In one paragraph

Article in The EMBO journal, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Data citation: what, when, why?Molecular systems biology · 2018
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  9. Locating ethics in data science: responsibility and accountability in global and distributed knowledge production systems.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2016
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  10. Preparing for Preprints.The EMBO journal · 2016
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  11. Handling Metadata in a Neurophysiology Laboratory.Frontiers in neuroinformatics · 2016
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  12. Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence?Philosophia (Ramat-Gan, Israel) · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Bernd PulvererEMBO, Heidelberg, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Research findings advance science only if they are significant, reliable and reproducible. Scientists and journals must publish robust data in a way that renders it optimally reproducible. Reproducibility has to be incentivized and supported by the research infrastructure but without dampening innovation.

Indexed as

Biomedical ResearchHumansPeriodicals as TopicReproducibility of Results

Identifiers

PMID26538323
PMCPMC4682652

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.