Automating the pre-review of research

This paper gives an overview of Ripeta, an organization whose mission is to assess, design, and disseminate practices and measures to improve the reproducibility of science with minimal burden on scientists, starting with the biomedical sciences. Ripeta focuses on assessing the quality of the reporting and robustness of the scientific method rather than on the quality of the science. Their long-term goal includes developing a suite of tools across the broader spectrum of sciences to understand and measure the key standards and limitations for scientific reproducibility across the research lifecycle and enable an automated approach to their assessment and dissemination. For consumers of scientific research who want an easier way to evaluate the science, Ripeta offers research reports – similar to credit reports to quickly assess the rigor of publications. Unlike the current burden of extensive due diligence and sifting through lengthy scientific publications, Ripeta extracts the key components for reproducible research from the manuscripts and intuitively present them to you.