Exploring COVID-19 research credibility among Spanish scientists.

ABSTRACT: Amidst a worldwide vaccination campaign, trust in science plays a significant role when addressing the COVID-19 pandemic. Given current concerns regarding research standards, we were interested in how Spanish scholars perceived COVID-19 research and the extent to which questionable research practices and potentially problematic academic incentives are commonplace. We asked researchers to evaluate the expected quality of their COVID-19 projects and other peers' research and compared these assessments with those from scholars not involved in COVID-19 research. We investigated self-admitting and estimated rates of questionable research practices and attitudes towards current research status. Responses from 131 researchers suggested that COVID-19 evaluations followed partisan lines, with schol

SUBMITTER: Garcia-Garzon E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8884412 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature