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Knowledge and attitudes among life scientists towards reproducibility within journal articles

Evanthia Kaimaklioti Samota, Robert P. Davey
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/581033
Evanthia Kaimaklioti Samota
1Earlham Institute, Norwich, UK
2University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
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  • For correspondence: evanthia.samota@earlham.ac.uk
Robert P. Davey
1Earlham Institute, Norwich, UK
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Abstract

We constructed a survey to understand how authors and scientists view the issues around reproducibility, and how solutions such as interactive figures could enable the reproducibility of experiments from within a research article. This manuscript reports the results of this survey on the views of 251 researchers, including authors who have published in eLIFE Sciences, and those who work at the Norwich Biosciences Institutes (NBI). The survey also outlines to what extent researchers are occupied with reproducing experiments themselves and what are their desirable features of an interactive figure. Respondents considered various features for an interactive figure within a research article that would allow for them to better understand and reproduce in situ the experiment presented in the figure. Respondents said that the most important element that would enable the better reproducibility of published research would be that authors describe methods and analyses in detail. The respondents believe that having interactive figures in published papers is a beneficial element. Whilst interactive figures are potential solutions for demonstrating technical reproducibility, we find that there are equally pressing cultural demands on researchers that need to be addressed to achieve greater success in reproducibility in the life sciences.

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  • Introduction was updated to clarify the definition of reproducibility versus other terms; Table 1 has been revised; Table 2 was included to show some more analyses done; Methods were updated to include the information around Table 2; Figures have been revised to have higher resolution; Supplemental files updated; Data Availability updated; Discussion was updated; References were updated with Vancouver referencing style.

  • https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4436912.v6

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Evanthia Kaimaklioti Samota, Robert P. Davey
bioRxiv 581033; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/581033
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Knowledge and attitudes among life scientists towards reproducibility within journal articles
Evanthia Kaimaklioti Samota, Robert P. Davey
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