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The significance gap: statistical significance rates decrease from primary literature to effects used in ecological meta-analyses

The significance gap: statistical significance rates decrease from primary literature to effects used in ecological meta-analyses

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Authors

Danijela Žanko, Antica Culina

Abstract

DOI

https://doi.org/10.32942/X2RQ3T

Subjects

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Life Sciences, Other Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Keywords

evidence synthesis, meta-research, scientific publishing, effect size, statistical significance

Dates

Published: 2026-05-02 05:35

Last Updated: 2026-05-02 05:35

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CC BY Attribution 4.0 International

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Conflict of interest statement:
The author declares no conflict of interest.

Data and Code Availability Statement:
All data and code required to reproduce the analyses and figures presented in this manuscript are openly available on the Open Science Framework (OSF) at https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/TS7R6.

Language:
English