The credibility crisis in research: can economics tools help?
The credibility crisis in research: can economics tools help?
The issue of nonreplicable evidence has attracted considerable attention across biomedical and other sciences. This concern is accompanied by an increasing interest in reforming research incentives and practices. How to optimally perform these reforms is a scientific problem in itself, and economics has several scientific methods that can help evaluate research reforms. Here, we review these methods and show their potential. Prominent among them are mathematical modeling and laboratory experiments that constitute affordable ways to approximate the effects of policies with wide-ranging implications.
Gall, Thomas
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Ioannidis, John
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Maniadis, Zacharias
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Gall, Thomas
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Ioannidis, John
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Maniadis, Zacharias
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Gall, Thomas, Ioannidis, John and Maniadis, Zacharias
(2017)
The credibility crisis in research: can economics tools help?
PLoS Biology, 15 (4), [e2001846].
(doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.2001846).
Abstract
The issue of nonreplicable evidence has attracted considerable attention across biomedical and other sciences. This concern is accompanied by an increasing interest in reforming research incentives and practices. How to optimally perform these reforms is a scientific problem in itself, and economics has several scientific methods that can help evaluate research reforms. Here, we review these methods and show their potential. Prominent among them are mathematical modeling and laboratory experiments that constitute affordable ways to approximate the effects of policies with wide-ranging implications.
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Accepted/In Press date: 30 March 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 26 April 2017
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/410746
ISSN: 1544-9173
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