Detecting and avoiding likely false-positive findings - a practical guide

How Bayes factors change scientific practice

(2016) Zoltan Dienes   JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL PSYCHOLOGY

1,500 scientists lift the lid on reproducibility

(2016) Monya Baker   NATURE

Transparency in Ecology and Evolution: Real Problems, Real Solutions

(2016) Timothy H. Parker et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Where Have All the Rodents Gone? The Effects of Attrition in Experimental Research on Cancer and Stroke

(2016) Constance Holman et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Reinventing Biostatistics Education for Basic Scientists

(2016) Tracey L. Weissgerber et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Badges to Acknowledge Open Practices: A Simple, Low-Cost, Effective Method for Increasing Transparency

(2016) Mallory C. Kidwell et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Problems in usingp-curve analysis and text-mining to detect rate ofp-hacking and evidential value

(2016) Dorothy V.M. Bishop et al.   PeerJ

The Peer Reviewers' Openness Initiative: incentivizing open research practices through peer review

(2016) Richard D. Morey et al.   Royal Society Open Science

A Bayesian Perspective on the Reproducibility Project: Psychology

(2016) Alexander Etz et al.   PLoS One

p-Curve and p-Hacking in Observational Research

(2016) Stephan B. Bruns et al.   PLoS One

Replicating research in ecology and evolution: feasibility, incentives, and the cost-benefit conundrum

(2015) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Offline: What is medicine's 5 sigma?

(2015) Richard Horton   LANCET

Blind analysis: Hide results to seek the truth

(2015) Robert MacCoun et al.   NATURE

How scientists fool themselves – and how they can stop

(2015) Regina Nuzzo   NATURE

Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science

(2015)   SCIENCE

Evidence of Experimental Bias in the Life Sciences: Why We Need Blind Data Recording

(2015) Luke Holman et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Significance chasing in research practice: causes, consequences and possible solutions

(2014) Jennifer J. Ware et al.   ADDICTION

The Statistical Crisis in Science

(2014) Andrew Gelman et al.   AMERICAN SCIENTIST

Scientific method: Statistical errors

(2014) Regina Nuzzo   NATURE

Female hurricanes are deadlier than male hurricanes

(2014) K. Jung et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Publication bias in the social sciences: Unlocking the file drawer

(2014) A. Franco et al.   SCIENCE

Reproducibility

(2014) M. McNutt   SCIENCE

Avoiding pitfalls in estimating heritability with the common options approach

(2014) Etienne Danchin et al.   Scientific Reports

Discussion: Difficulties in making inferences about scientific truth from distributions of published p-values

(2013) A. Gelman et al.   BIOSTATISTICS

An estimate of the science-wise false discovery rate and application to the top medical literature

(2013) L. R. Jager et al.   BIOSTATISTICS

Reproducibility: The risks of the replication drive

(2013) Mina Bissell   NATURE

Power failure: why small sample size undermines the reliability of neuroscience

(2013) Katherine S. Button et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Confirmation Bias in Studies of Nestmate Recognition: A Cautionary Note for Research into the Behaviour of Animals

(2013) Ellen van Wilgenburg et al.   PLoS One

What do we really know about the signalling role of plumage colour in blue tits? A case study of impediments to progress in evolutionary biology

(2012) Timothy H. Parker   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Registered Reports: A new publishing initiative at Cortex

(2012) Christopher D. Chambers   CORTEX

Raise standards for preclinical cancer research

(2012) C. Glenn Begley et al.   NATURE

No Band Color Effects on Male Courtship Rate or Body Mass in the Zebra Finch: Four Experiments and a Meta-Analysis

(2012) Aurelie Seguin et al.   PLoS One

Statistically significant meta-analyses of clinical trials have modest credibility and inflated effects

(2011) Tiago V. Pereira et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Data transformation practices in biomedical sciences

(2011) Mihai Valcu et al.   NATURE METHODS

Believe it or not: how much can we rely on published data on potential drug targets?

(2011) Florian Prinz et al.   NATURE REVIEWS DRUG DISCOVERY

Dissemination biases in ecology: effect sizes matter more than quality

(2011) E. Kathryn Barto et al.   OIKOS

Power rangers: no improvement in the statistical power of analyses published in Animal Behaviour

(2010) Daniel R. Smith et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Spatial autocorrelation: an overlooked concept in behavioral ecology

(2010) Mihai Valcu et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Issues in information theory-based statistical inference—a commentary from a frequentist’s perspective

(2010) Roger Mundry   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Cryptic multiple hypotheses testing in linear models: overestimated effect sizes and the winner's curse

(2010) Wolfgang Forstmeier et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

THE LANDE-KIRKPATRICK MECHANISM IS THE NULL MODEL OF EVOLUTION BY INTERSEXUAL SELECTION: IMPLICATIONS FOR MEANING, HONESTY, AND DESIGN IN INTERSEXUAL SIGNALS

(2010) Richard O. Prum   EVOLUTION

“Positive” Results Increase Down the Hierarchy of the Sciences

(2010) Daniele Fanelli   PLoS One

A polymorphism in the oestrogen receptor gene explains covariance between digit ratio and mating behaviour

(2010) W. Forstmeier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Using false discovery rates for multiple comparisons in ecology and evolution

(2010) Nathan Pike   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The Misuse of BLUP in Ecology and Evolution

(2009) Jarrod D. Hadfield et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Of Beauty, Sex and Power

(2009) Andrew Gelman et al.   AMERICAN SCIENTIST

Technical note: An R package for fitting generalized linear mixed models in animal breeding1

(2009) A. I. Vazquez et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE

Stepwise Model Fitting and Statistical Inference: Turning Noise into Signal Pollution

(2008) Roger Mundry et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Conclusions beyond support: overconfident estimates in mixed models

(2008) H. Schielzeth et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY