Background:“Open peer review”(OPR), despite being a major pillar of Open Science, has
neither a standardized definition nor an agreed schema of its features and implementations …

A study with low statistical power has a reduced chance of detecting a true effect, but it is
less well appreciated that low power also reduces the likelihood that a statistically significant …

A reproducibility crisis is a situation where many scientific studies cannot be reproduced.
Inappropriate practices of science, such as HARKing, p-hacking, and selective reporting of …

Almost everyone is enthusiastic that 'open science'is the wave of the future. Yet when one
looks seriously at the flaws in modern science that the movement proposes to remedy, the …

Poor research design and data analysis encourage false-positive findings. Such poor
methods persist despite perennial calls for improvement, suggesting that they result from …

There is growing interest in enhancing research transparency and reproducibility in
economics and other scientific fields. We survey existing work on these topics within …

A detailed review of all 2,047 biomedical and life-science research articles indexed by
PubMed as retracted on May 3, 2012 revealed that only 21.3% of retractions were …

Most researchers acknowledge an intrinsic hierarchy in the scholarly journals ('journal rank')
that they submit their work to, and adjust not only their submission but also their reading …

The honesty and integrity of scientists is widely believed to be threatened by pressures to
publish, unsupportive research environments, and other structural, sociological and …

In this thoroughly revised second edition of Publish or Perish, Imad A. Moosa extends and
develops his analysis of the continual pressure to publish research which plagues the …