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Research paper thumbnail of Analysis of Retraction Watch Database for Retractions Due to Errors in the Clinical Science Reproducible Research Pipeline: A Scoping Review Protocol

Research paper thumbnail of Mental models of population growth: A preliminary investigation

WITH THE INCREASING dominion of the human species over the planet’s ecology, the study of human c... more WITH THE INCREASING dominion of the human species over the planet’s ecology, the study of human cognition has taken on new significance. The growth of human population and activities now affects the general ecology to a significant extent (Erlich, 1988; McMichael, 1993; Nisbet, 1991). For this reason, the ways in which people reason and make decisions have become matters of global import. As a striking indicator of where we rank on the scale of global cataclysms, consider the rate of species extinction. According to Kempton, Boster, and Hartley (1994, p. 27), “With human-caused intervention, current rates of extinction are estimated to be somewhere between four thousand and twenty-seven thousand per year” (against an estimated background rate of less than one per year) (also see Wilson, 1992; World Resources Institute, 1992, p. 128; Peters and Lovejoy, 1990). They note that this rate of extinction is typically associated with transitions from one geological age to another. By this c...

Research paper thumbnail of Facilitating reproducible research through direct connection of data analysis with manuscript preparation: StatTag for connecting statistical software to Microsoft Word

Objectives To enhance reproducible research by creating a broadly accessible, free, open-source s... more Objectives To enhance reproducible research by creating a broadly accessible, free, open-source software tool for connecting Microsoft Word to statistical programs (R/R Markdown, Python, SAS, Stata) so that results may be automatically updated in a manuscript. Materials and Methods We developed StatTag for Windows as a Microsoft Word plug-in using C# and for macOS as a native application using Objective-C. Source code is available under the MIT license at https://github.com/stattag. Results StatTag links analysis file(s) (R/R Markdown, SAS, Stata, or Python) and a Word document, invokes the statistical program(s) to obtain results, and embeds selected output in the document. StatTag can accommodate multiple statistical programs with a single document and features an interface to view, edit, and rerun statistical code directly from Word. Discussion and Conclusion StatTag may facilitate reproducibility within increasingly multidisciplinary research teams, improve research transparency...

Research paper thumbnail of Pragmatic Reproducible Research Guide

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License (... more This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-NC 3.0) T EA M QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURS ELF TH INKING ABOUT REPRODUC IBLE RESEARCH Who am I working with on this project? Identify all of the people involved, since everything they work on is subject to change somewhere along the way. How technical are they (and me)? Reproducible research doesn't have to use technical solutions. Keep thinking of steps you can perform in a reproducible manner without technology, or using technology that may be more approachable. How open are they to approaching reproducible research? Keep in mind that reproducible research is an up-front investment. It is extra work, and not everyone on the team may be willing to embrace it. If that's the case, you can always focus on your part of the project.

Research paper thumbnail of Analysis of Retraction Watch Database for Retractions Due to Errors in the Clinical Science Reproducible Research Pipeline: A Scoping Review Protocol

Research paper thumbnail of Mental models of population growth: A preliminary investigation

WITH THE INCREASING dominion of the human species over the planet’s ecology, the study of human c... more WITH THE INCREASING dominion of the human species over the planet’s ecology, the study of human cognition has taken on new significance. The growth of human population and activities now affects the general ecology to a significant extent (Erlich, 1988; McMichael, 1993; Nisbet, 1991). For this reason, the ways in which people reason and make decisions have become matters of global import. As a striking indicator of where we rank on the scale of global cataclysms, consider the rate of species extinction. According to Kempton, Boster, and Hartley (1994, p. 27), “With human-caused intervention, current rates of extinction are estimated to be somewhere between four thousand and twenty-seven thousand per year” (against an estimated background rate of less than one per year) (also see Wilson, 1992; World Resources Institute, 1992, p. 128; Peters and Lovejoy, 1990). They note that this rate of extinction is typically associated with transitions from one geological age to another. By this c...

Research paper thumbnail of Facilitating reproducible research through direct connection of data analysis with manuscript preparation: StatTag for connecting statistical software to Microsoft Word

Objectives To enhance reproducible research by creating a broadly accessible, free, open-source s... more Objectives To enhance reproducible research by creating a broadly accessible, free, open-source software tool for connecting Microsoft Word to statistical programs (R/R Markdown, Python, SAS, Stata) so that results may be automatically updated in a manuscript. Materials and Methods We developed StatTag for Windows as a Microsoft Word plug-in using C# and for macOS as a native application using Objective-C. Source code is available under the MIT license at https://github.com/stattag. Results StatTag links analysis file(s) (R/R Markdown, SAS, Stata, or Python) and a Word document, invokes the statistical program(s) to obtain results, and embeds selected output in the document. StatTag can accommodate multiple statistical programs with a single document and features an interface to view, edit, and rerun statistical code directly from Word. Discussion and Conclusion StatTag may facilitate reproducibility within increasingly multidisciplinary research teams, improve research transparency...

Research paper thumbnail of Pragmatic Reproducible Research Guide

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License (... more This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-NC 3.0) T EA M QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURS ELF TH INKING ABOUT REPRODUC IBLE RESEARCH Who am I working with on this project? Identify all of the people involved, since everything they work on is subject to change somewhere along the way. How technical are they (and me)? Reproducible research doesn't have to use technical solutions. Keep thinking of steps you can perform in a reproducible manner without technology, or using technology that may be more approachable. How open are they to approaching reproducible research? Keep in mind that reproducible research is an up-front investment. It is extra work, and not everyone on the team may be willing to embrace it. If that's the case, you can always focus on your part of the project.

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