The Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative

Most efforts to estimate the reproducibility of published findings have focused on specific areas of research, even though science is usually assessed and funded on a regional or national basis. Here we describe a project to assess the reproducibility of findings in biomedical science published by r...

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Published in:eLife 2019-02, Vol.8
Main Authors: Amaral, Olavo B, Neves, Kleber, Wasilewska-Sampaio, Ana P, Carneiro, Clarissa Fd
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biochemistry - methods
Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
Biological research
Biology
Biomedical research
Biomedical Research - methods
Brazil
Cancer
Cell Biology
Collaboration
Evaluation
Experiments
Funding
Initiatives
Laboratories
Life sciences
Medical research
metascience
Open access
open science
replication
Reproducibility
Reproducibility of Results
Researchers
Science Forum
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Summary:Most efforts to estimate the reproducibility of published findings have focused on specific areas of research, even though science is usually assessed and funded on a regional or national basis. Here we describe a project to assess the reproducibility of findings in biomedical science published by researchers based in Brazil. The Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative is a systematic, multicenter effort to repeat between 60 and 100 experiments: the project will focus on a set of common methods, repeating each experiment in three different laboratories from a countrywide network. The results, due in 2021, will allow us to estimate the level of reproducibility of biomedical science in Brazil, and to investigate what aspects of the published literature might help to predict whether a finding is reproducible.
ISSN:2050-084X
2050-084X
DOI:10.7554/eLife.41602