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ArticleJournal of biosciences2022

Editorial : Reproducibility and replicability in science: A Sisyphean task.

Renee M Borges

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Article in Journal of biosciences, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
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

0 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

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 at 1 institution in 1 country.

Renee M BorgesIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The world received a confidence booster in the power of the scientific method, having witnessed and participated in the recent development of successful vaccines against SARS-COV-2. The world also got a peek into scientific controversies, the clamour for more transparency and data sharing, besides the requirement for rigorous testing, adequate sample sizes, false positives, false negatives, risk probabilities, and population variation. For an interested lay person, or even for a practising scientist, this was the equivalent of a crash course on the world stage on how science is done, warts and all, but where science triumphed in the end....

Indexed as

Reproducibility of ResultsResearchCOVID-19 VaccinesSerial PublicationsCOVID-19 Vaccines

Identifiers

PMID35212267
PMCPMC8873342
OpenAlexW4214617316

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Registered trials

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