Is failure to conduct reproducibility studies the latest clinical research crisis?
An international survey has found that many biomedical researchers have concerns about the state of academic publishing.
Pressure to publish new findings is a key reason reproducibility studies are being pushed to the wayside, researchers say.
Despite being a crucial test of a study’s quality, there are fewer incentives to reproduce research, according to findings from an international online survey.
Some 1630 biomedical researchers — covering clinical, in vivo and in vitro research — responded.
“Almost three-quarters of participants reported that they felt there was a reproducibility crisis in biomedicine,” according to the research team, which included Australia’s Monash University, Stanford University in the US and Canada’s University of Ottawa.
