TY - JOUR TI - The Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative AU - Amaral, Olavo B AU - Neves, Kleber AU - Wasilewska-Sampaio, Ana P AU - Carneiro, Clarissa FD A2 - Rodgers, Peter A2 - Errington, Timothy M A2 - Klein, Richard VL - 8 PY - 2019 DA - 2019/02/05 SP - e41602 C1 - eLife 2019;8:e41602 DO - 10.7554/eLife.41602 UR - https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.41602 AB - 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. KW - reproducibility KW - replication KW - Brazil KW - biomedical research KW - open science KW - metascience JF - eLife SN - 2050-084X PB - eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd ER -