Reproducibility in science

Michael B Yaffe

doi:10.1126/scisignal.aaa5764

Reproducibility in science

Sci Signal. 2015 Apr 7;8(371):eg5. doi: 10.1126/scisignal.aaa5764.

Author

Michael B Yaffe¹

Affiliation

¹ Michael B. Yaffe is the Chief Scientific Editor of Science Signaling, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1200 New York Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20005, USA, and Professor at David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, The Broad Institute, and the Departments of Biology and Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. E-mail: myaffe@mit.edu.

PMID: 25852185
DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.aaa5764

Abstract

The issue of reproducibility and reliability in science has come to the forefront in light of several high-profile studies that could not be reproduced. Whereas some errors in reliability can be attributed to the application of new techniques that have unappreciated caveats, some problems with reproducibility lie in the climate of intense pressure for funding and to publish faced by many researchers.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Animals
Biomedical Research*
Humans
Portraits as Topic
Reproducibility of Results*