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The reproducibility crisis
Author(s) -
BeharCohen Francine
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
acta ophthalmologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.534
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1755-3768
pISSN - 1755-375X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2019.8238
Subject(s) - reproducibility , government (linguistics) , academic community , political science , medicine , engineering ethics , engineering , sociology , social science , mathematics , statistics , philosophy , linguistics
The reproducibility of research made in academic laboratories is crucial and a major concern for the scientific community, the payers, and the society, which are all expecting that results from academic research translate to concrete applications. It is estimated that more than 50% of money spend by the US government for preclinical research is lost in unreproducible results. More than 70% of scientists have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiment and more 50% have failed to reproduce their own research. More than 80% of scientists consider that we are facing a reproducibility crisis. The reasons for such a crisis will be presented and propositions made to reduce this problem.