Do oncology researchers adhere to reproducible and transparent principles? A cross-sectional survey of published oncology literature.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES:As much as 50%-90% of research is estimated to be irreproducible, costing upwards of $28 billion in USA alone. Reproducible research practices are essential to improving the reproducibility and transparency of biomedical research, such as including preregistering studies, publishing a protocol, making research data and metadata publicly available, and publishing in open access journals. Here we report an investigation of key reproducible or transparent research practices in the published oncology literature. DESIGN:We performed a cross-sectional analysis of a random sample of 300 oncology publications published from 2014 to 2018. We extracted key reproducibility and transparency characteristics in a duplicative fashion by blinded investigators using a pilot tested Google Form. P

SUBMITTER: Walters C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6955516 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature