Very pleased the #OpenScience bootcamp at #PennState came to fruition! We kicked off with a great plenary from Tim Errington, @openscience. So many great workshops: #replication, #QRPs, #datamanagement, #preregistration, #datasharing https://penn-state-open-science.github.io/bootcamp-2023/index.html

Should we be investigating the trustworthiness of the research or the researcher?

'Breaches in Research Integrity' - Dr Josephine Woodhams: https://lnkd.in/eG-ycPNb

#ResearchIntegrity #ResearchMisconduct #RMIT #BreachesInResearchIntegrity #QRPs #TrustInResearch

Early career researchers and #predatory journals during the #Covid19 pandemic. An international analysis

in "Profesional de la información" (2023)

https://revista.profesionaldelainformacion.com/index.php/EPI/article/view/87217

#PredatoryJournals #QRPs #QRP #research #Publishing #scholcom #scholarlycommunication #ECR

In our #LabMeeting, we discussed an interesting preprint pointing out the relevance of researchers degrees of freedom and #QRPs in #simulation studies:

Pawel, S., Kook, L., & Reeve, K. (2022). Pitfalls and potentials in simulation studies. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2203.13076

"In comparison to researchers in the US, European researchers admit to more #QRPs [questionable research practices] and are less confident in maintaining high RI [#ResearchIntegrity] standards" - preprint from #SOPs4RI

https://osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/fgy7c/

Is the 🇺🇸 more ethical than the 🇪🇺 ... or more naïve?

Read more in the Nature Index coverage: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00016-1

Unearned #authorship pervades #science

👉 Research-#integrity survey also suggests that there is a split in US- and Europe-based researchers’ perceptions of ‘questionable #research practices’.

"Around 69% of researchers based in Europe and roughly 55% in the US said that they were aware of co-authors being listed who hadn’t contributed sufficiently"

"Inadequate #peerreview and poor supervision were the next most common #QRPs"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00016-1

#QRP #ethics

@tedpavlic I'm sure it's not the intention - indeed they add a cautionary note - but this kind of advice leads to HARKing & other questionable research practices that massage research into a neat narrative.

It's the antithesis of #OpenScience practices like #RegisteredReports. You should start with a research question, a summary of what is known, & then the methods. Post-hoc theorising must be declared. It keeps you honest.

#WritingTips #ResearchWriting #HARKing #QRPs #PublicationEthics

Indicators of questionable research practices were identified in 163,129 #RCTs #QRPs
https://www.jclinepi.com/article/S0895-4356(22)00307-9/fulltext?rss=yes

(1) risk of #bias assessments
(2) modifications in primary outcomes that were registered in trial registration records (proxy for selective reporting bias);
(3) ratio of the achieved to planned sample sizes; and
(4) statistical discrepancy.

#QuestionableResearchPractices

Looks like a great talk from Stephan Guttinger on Questionable Research Practices

“What should be abandoned is not the idea of questioning practice, but the idea that there is a class of questionable research practices.”

Slides: https://philstatwars.files.wordpress.com/2022/12/guttinger_draft_red.pdf

#OpenScience
#MetaScience
#MetaResearch
#PsychMethods
#ReplicationCrisis
#QRPs