Sentences with phrase «questionable publication practices»

Such notions about the pharmaceutical industry are not uncommon among academics, and recent news coverage of selective clinical trial data reporting and questionable publication practices haven't helped the industry's image.

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The philosophy behind Registered Reports is that the new format will help improve research transparency and reproducibility by reducing publication bias — journals» favoring of certain types of results — and, consequently, the questionable research practices that some scientists adopt to make their results more likely to be published.
Barring that expensive and time - consuming effort, there are mathematical tests that scientists can perform to determine if the results from a set of studies might be the result of questionable research practices such as publication bias or P - hacking — mining data to uncover significant differences.
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