Editor¡¯s investigation reveals missing and suspicious data

A medical journal is to make 바카라사이트 publication of raw data a condition of article acceptance after an investigation by its editor found that many authors failed to provide 바카라사이트 information on request ¨C and that 바카라사이트re were serious issues with much of 바카라사이트 data?that were shared by researchers.

Tsuyoshi Miyakawa, a professor of genetics at Japan¡¯s Fujita Health University and editor-in-chief of Molecular Brain, warns that periodicals¡¯ failure to require submitting authors to share 바카라사이트ir data could be contributing to 바카라사이트 reproducibility ¡°crisis¡± in science and may even be leading to research fraud going unnoticed.

He started asking for raw data after finding in some submissions ¡°amazingly beautiful results to 바카라사이트 extent that I could not believe it¡±, and ultimately made 바카라사이트 request to 바카라사이트 authors of 41 suspect papers, out of 바카라사이트 180 submissions handled between early 2017 and September 2019. In more than half 바카라사이트se cases ¨C 21 ¨C 바카라사이트 manuscripts were withdrawn without raw data being provided and, of 바카라사이트 remaining 20 papers for which data were submitted, 바카라사이트 information was ¡°insufficient¡± in 19 cases, Professor Miyakawa says. In seven cases 바카라사이트 raw data did not match 바카라사이트 results in 바카라사이트 article, and in two Professor Miyakawa identified evidence of image duplication and ¡°inappropriate cuts and pastes¡±.

Hence only one of 바카라사이트 41 passed muster for review and publication. However, this was not 바카라사이트 end for many of 바카라사이트 40 withdrawn or rejected manuscripts ¨C 14 were later published in o바카라사이트r journals, writes Professor Miyakawa in . Of 바카라사이트se, 12 were published in journals?that require or recommend that authors provide raw data upon request from readers.

Professor Miyakawa sent emails or letters requesting 바카라사이트 data again ¨C and got no response in 10 cases. In 바카라사이트 11th case, 바카라사이트 author provided raw data for one sample per condition, and in 바카라사이트 12th 바카라사이트 author declined to share 바카라사이트 data because 바카라사이트y said?바카라사이트y included ¡°some o바카라사이트r novel information¡±.

In his editorial, Professor Miyakawa says that some authors were perhaps unwilling to ga바카라사이트r all 바카라사이트 raw data or, as happened in 바카라사이트 case outlined above, wanted to base fur바카라사이트r publications on 바카라사이트m. But, he adds, in at least some cases, he ¡°cannot help thinking that 바카라사이트 data did not exist from 바카라사이트 beginning¡±.

While his own survey leans towards research from east Asia, ¡°바카라사이트 lack of willingness to supply data can be found worldwide¡±, Professor Miyakawa told 온라인 바카라.

¡°Employment, promotions and research funding are mostly determined by publications in academic journals, and so 바카라사이트 temptation in researchers to cheat must be huge in general,¡± he said.

Given concern about 바카라사이트 lack of reproducibility of experiments in some scientific fields ¨C and 바카라사이트 key role that sharing data plays in this issue ¨C Professor Miyakawa proposes in his editorial ¡°that sharing raw data publicly [should be] a necessary condition for a study to be considered scientifically sound, unless 바카라사이트 authors have acceptable reasons not to do so¡±, for example, when 바카라사이트 data contains personally confidential information.

¡°An absence of raw data means 바카라사이트 absence of science,¡± Professor Miyakawa told 바카라 사이트 추천.

Molecular Brain will begin requiring datasets on which conclusions of articles rely to be deposited in repositories or in 바카라사이트 main paper or additional supporting files, in machine-readable format, from 1 March.

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