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Empowering peer reviewers to improve transparency
Published: 2018-04-17
Subjects: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Life Sciences
Peer review is widely considered fundamental to maintaining the rigor of science, but it is an imperfect process. In that context, it is noteworthy that formal standards or guidelines for peer reviews themselves are rarely discussed in many disciplines, including ecology and evolutionary biology. Some may argue that a dearth of explicit guidelines is not a problem. After all, a tremendous amount [...]
Questionable Research Practices in Ecology and Evolution
Published: 2018-03-21
Subjects: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Life Sciences
We surveyed 807 researchers (494 ecologists and 313 evolutionary biologists) about their use of Questionable Research Practices (QRPs), including cherry picking statistically significant results, p hacking, and hypothesising after the results are known (HARKing). We also asked them to estimate the proportion of their colleagues that use each of these QRPs. Several of the QRPs were prevalent [...]