Academic urban legends

Rekdal, Ole Bjørn

doi:10.1177/0306312714535679

Cited by 55 publications

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“…We note as well that such policies are not currently standardized across journals, nor are they typically optimized for data reuse. This finding reinforces significant concerns recently expressed in the scientific literature about reproducibility and whether many false positives are being reported as fact (Colquhoun, 2014; Rekdal, 2014; Begley & Ellis, 2012; Prinz, Schlange & Asadullah, 2011; Greenberg, 2009; Ioannidis, 2005). …”

Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 86%

Achieving human and machine accessibility of cited data in scholarly publications

Starr

Castro

Crosas

et al. 2015

PeerJ Computer Science

102

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Reproducibility and reusability of research results is an important concern in scientific communication and science policy. A foundational element of reproducibility and reusability is the open and persistently available presentation of research data. However, many common approaches for primary data publication in use today do not achieve sufficient long-term robustness, openness, accessibility or uniformity. Nor do they permit comprehensive exploitation by modern Web technologies. This has led to several authoritative studies recommending uniform direct citation of data archived in persistent repositories. Data are to be considered as first-class scholarly objects, and treated similarly in many ways to cited and archived scientific and scholarly literature. Here we briefly review the most current and widely agreed set of principle-based recommendations for scholarly data citation, the Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles (JDDCP). We then present a framework for operationalizing the JDDCP; and a set of initial recommendations on identifier schemes, identifier resolution behavior, required metadata elements, and best practices for realizing programmatic machine actionability of cited data. The main target audience for the common implementation guidelines in this article consists of publishers, scholarly organizations, and persistent data repositories, including technical staff members in these organizations. But ordinary researchers can also benefit from these recommendations. The guidance provided here is intended to help achieve widespread, uniform human and machine accessibility of deposited data, in support of significantly improved verification, validation, reproducibility and re-use of scholarly/scientific data.

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Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 86%

Achieving human and machine accessibility of cited data in scholarly publications

Starr

Castro

Crosas

et al. 2015

PeerJ Computer Science

102

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“…At least for publicly funded science, citations may be a way that authors demonstrate the value of their work to the scientific community, and thus build the case for further funding. Further, reliance on secondary sources is a good way to introduce or repeat inaccuracies (Rekdal ). We echo previous calls for better training and rigor when conducting and reporting secondary analyses of ecotoxicology and related literature.…”

Section: Promoting Scientific Integrity In Ecotoxicologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Scientific integrity issues in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry: Improving research reproducibility, credibility, and transparency

Mebane

Sumpter

Fairbrother

et al. 2019

Integr Envir Assess & Manag

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High‐profile reports of detrimental scientific practices leading to retractions in the scientific literature contribute to lack of trust in scientific experts. Although the bulk of these have been in the literature of other disciplines, environmental toxicology and chemistry are not free from problems. While we believe that egregious misconduct such as fraud, fabrication of data, or plagiarism is rare, scientific integrity is much broader than the absence of misconduct. We are more concerned with more commonly encountered and nuanced issues such as poor reliability and bias. We review a range of topics including conflicts of interests, competing interests, some particularly challenging situations, reproducibility, bias, and other attributes of ecotoxicological studies that enhance or detract from scientific credibility. Our vision of scientific integrity encourages a self‐correcting culture that promotes scientific rigor, relevant reproducible research, transparency in competing interests, methods and results, and education. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2019;00:000–000. © 2019 SETAC

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“…Cite the primary sources. In this way, you not only show better scholarship skills, but increase greatly the likelihood that what you say people said will correspond to what they actually did say.It is as simple as that, if we want to distinguish academic publications from a playground for the free flow of rumors and urban legends (Rekdal 2014a, 2014b). It seems clear that we have a long way to go before we can convincingly establish such a distinction.…”

Section: The Citation Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

Monuments to Academic Carelessness

Rekdal¹

2014

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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In 1942, Katherine Frost Bruner published an article titled “Of psychological writing: Being some valedictory remarks on style.” It was published in Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, the journal for which she served as editorial assistant between 1937 and 1941. Her collection of advice to writing scholars has been widely quoted, including by several editions of The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. The most frequently quoted message in Bruner’s article deals with the importance of making sure that references in academic texts are complete and accurate. Exploring the citation history of this particular message reveals an ironic point: the great majority of those who have quoted Bruner’s words on reference accuracy have not done so accurately. The case may serve as a reminder of the importance of the basic academic principle of striving to use primary sources. The most startling finding in this study is how frequently this principle is violated, even by authors who advise and educate academic writers.

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Academic urban legends

Cited by 55 publications

References 22 publications

Achieving human and machine accessibility of cited data in scholarly publications

Achieving human and machine accessibility of cited data in scholarly publications

Scientific integrity issues in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry: Improving research reproducibility, credibility, and transparency

Monuments to Academic Carelessness

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