publishing, techniques

Scientists see great value in catchy acronyms, so they get creative when it comes to naming new tools and techniques.

In service of an arbitrary threshold, p-values often lead researchers to make poorly supported claims and ignore interesting but insignificant results, scientists argue.

The use of underperforming computational tools is a major offender in science’s reproducibility crisis—and there’s growing momentum to avoid it.

Nineteen researchers have stepped down after the journal decided not to retract a paper that they say plagiarized the work of a Johns Hopkins biomedical scientist.

Credit for the neuroscience technique has largely overlooked the researcher who first demonstrated the method.

A lack of methodological detail in the published literature threatens the foundation of scientific discourse.