Science Forum: The Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative
- Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Abstract
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, multi-center effort to repeat between 60 and 100 experiments: the project will focus on a set of common laboratory methods, repeating each experiment in three different laboratories. The results, due in 2021, will allow us to estimate the level of reproducibility of biomedical science in Brazil, and to investigate what the published literature can tell us about the reproducibility of research in a given area.
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All data cited in the article is available at the project's site at the Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/6av7k/).
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Data from The Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative: a systematic assessment of Brazilian biomedical scienceOpen Science Framework, 10.17605/OSF.IO/6AV7K.
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Clarissa FD Carneiro
Funding
Instituto Serrapilheira
- Olavo B Amaral
CNPq
- Clarissa FD Carneiro
The project's funder (Instituto Serrapilheira) made suggestions on the study design, but had no role in data collection and interpretation, or in the decision to submit the work for publication. K. N. and A.P.W.S. are supported by post-doctoral scholarships within this project. C.F.D.C. is supported by a PhD scholarship from CNPq.
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© 2019, Amaral et al.
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License permitting unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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Science Forum: The Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative
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