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To err is human. Scientists being human, they make
mistakes. Many if not most of the rules for doing science are designed to weed
out mistakes. Reproducibility and replicability are recogniz...
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In a recent blog post, Titus Brown asks if software is a primary product of science, and basically says "no" (but do read the post for the details). A blog-post length reply by Daniel Katz comes to...
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While reading the final report of the reproducibility workshop at XSEDE14, I noticed a statement that I encounter frequently in discussions about reproducible research:
"One general consensus was ...
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The importance of reproducibility in computational science is being more and more recognized, which I think is a good sign. However, I also notice a lot of confusion about what reproducibility mean...
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Altmetrics is one of the hotly debated topics in the Open Science movement today. In summary, the idea is that traditional bibliometric measures (citation counts, impact factors, h factors, ...) ar...
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If science were
perfect, there would be nothing left to explore or critique. So, irreproducible
science serves two functions: to scientists, it represents an opportunity to
improve or discover new ...
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The Same Thing Over and Over
Again
When scientists fail to reproduce the results of multiple
experiments the support previously provided for theories breaks down. This is a
modern phenomenon in sc...
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The ‘reproducibility crisis’ in science
appears to be a widespread problem that may have its roots in the ‘publish or
perish’ culture of the contemporary academy. Facilitated by a well-developed
cu...
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Big science is on the rise. Recent endeavors, such as the Large Hadron Collider and the Human Genome Project, illustrate the rise in large-scale scientific inquiries. To assess whether big science ...
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