Since the early 1990s, ecologists and evolutionary biologists have aggregated primary
research using meta‐analytic methods to understand ecological and evolutionary …

Registered Reports are a form of empirical publication in which study proposals are peer
reviewed and pre-accepted before research is undertaken. By deciding which articles are …

We conducted the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology to investigate the replicability of
preclinical research in cancer biology. The initial aim of the project was to repeat 193 …

Improving the reproducibility of biomedical research is a major challenge. Transparent and
accurate reporting is vital to this process; it allows readers to assess the reliability of the …

Selectively publishing results that support the tested hypotheses (“positive” results) distorts
the available evidence for scientific claims. For the past decade, psychological scientists …

For knowledge to benefit research and society, it must be trustworthy. Trustworthy research
is robust, rigorous, and transparent at all stages of design, execution, and reporting …

In the last decade Open Science principles have been successfully advocated for and are
being slowly adopted in different research communities. In response to the COVID-19 …

In registered reports (RRs), initial peer review and in-principle acceptance occur before
knowing the research outcomes. This combats publication bias and distinguishes planned …

The biological sciences community is increasingly recognizing the value of open,
reproducible and transparent research practices for science and society at large. Despite …

Science is among humanity's greatest achievements, yet scientific censorship is rarely
studied empirically. We explore the social, psychological, and institutional causes and …