#researchwaste — Public Fediverse posts

INSPECT-SR is a tool to address risks posed by untrustworthy randomized controlled trials:
https://www.cochrane.org/about-us/news/new-tool-detects-problematic-trials-they-distort-evidence

The focus is on use in #SysReviews, but I think it may offer opportunities for training in #RCT methods.

I'll find out - just registered for @jd_wilko 's webinar:
https://www.trybooking.com/uk/events/landing/94843

#ResearchWaste #ResearchIntegrity

Need extra motivation to share your data?

➡️ Complete data extraction possible for 22 studies
➡️ By contacting authors we got complete data for 21 extra studies 🙏🏼
➡️ 20 studies excluded due to preventable reporting issues 😡
➡️ 8 authors told us they had lost the data FOREVER 😭

#researchwaste

📰 https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.29.620852

Of registered clinical trials 2016-2019 in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, the results of 1 in 5 have never been reported

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.04.24301363v1

"Results reporting for clinical trials led by medical universities and university hospitals in the Nordic countries was often missing or delayed"

(Nilsonne et al, 2024)

#ResearchIntegrity #ResearchWaste

New NIOO publication: Supporting study registration to reduce research waste, by @antica_c and others.
#preregistration #registeredreports #ecology #researchwaste #researchprocess #openscience
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02433-5

The most important question before supporting any #OpenScience initiative is how exactly it helps build a usable and reliable scientific knowledge base.

Few do.

#ResearchWaste

@lakens "among other things ... "Publish or perish!"" - I would like to know more about these "other things" 😅
Jokes aside, here's a fitting quote by Hannah Arendt (1972): "People write things which should never have been written and which should never be printed. Nobody’s interested." #ResearchWaste

On Monday is the deadline for applications for a new Co-Editor in Chief for "Quality of Life Research"
https://www.isoqol.org/isoqol-seeks-co-editor-in-chief-2023/

We managed to dedicate space to a number of pertinent topics in #HRQL research and practice such as:

Meaningful change
https://link.springer.com/journal/11136/volumes-and-issues/32-5

#ResearchWaste
https://link.springer.com/journal/11136/volumes-and-issues/31-10

Nonparametric IRT #Psychometrics
https://link.springer.com/journal/11136/volumes-and-issues/31-1

#ISOQOL are looking for an individual to continue leadership in this direction.

#Editing #Publishing

@pdakean @oliverpyc @kdnyhan
Good discussion!

Reporting guidelines are deficient (focus on transparency/completeness, not quality; consensus only on (often outdated) minimal standard; only for the 'typical' project; many projects do not use one design), but as a
'a minimal standard as to what to report' (and what to plan for when designing a project!)
they provide one element in the scaffolding to reduce #ResearchWaste

https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k4645

Our own humble take #HRQL
https://psyarxiv.com/879xp/

Alarm bells should start ringing when a PI or head of department starts setting targets related to quantity of papers. As a lot of junior researchers' time is going to be be wasted churning out papers of little scientific merit, and of no benefit to anybody other than PI or head of department.

#ResearchWaste

COMET initiative newsletter out:
https://mailchi.mp/422a8e7f2f98/jan2023-6226622

Core outcome sets are an important infrastructure to reduce #ResearchWaste.

Read about research waste in #HRQL research in our most recent special section on that topic (Oct-2022):
https://link.springer.com/journal/11136/volumes-and-issues/31-10

#PrePrint of our editorial:
https://psyarxiv.com/879xp/
(w Claudia Rutherford, Sydney)

#Psychometrics

Already widely shared, but this article from the BMJ Christmas issue has a lot of content we have been discussing in our editorial board meetings:
https://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj-2022-072883

Submissions to QLR are screened for good use of reporting guidelines.

Our #HRQL #ResearchWaste special issue touches on a number of these issues:
https://psyarxiv.com/879xp/

eg. research questions:
https://rdcu.be/c2nJv

and appropriate sample size planning:
https://rdcu.be/c2nJy

#NightshiftEditor

🔖 Do cancer researchers make their data and code available?

306 cancer studies:

16% shared data

4% shared analysis code

1% of data were FAIR (posted to a recognised repository, in a non-proprietary format, with an identifier and a license)

Cancer research transparency was this bad despite many journals having policies mandating openness.

Daniel Hamilton et al
https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-022-02644-2

#MedMastodon
#OpenScience
#ResearchIntegrity
#ResearchWaste
#doi:10.1186/s12916-022-02644-2

🔖 Statistical code in a high-impact medical journal

A journal started asking authors to submit code with their manuscripts. They then analysed the next 314 papers accepted

87% denied using code, even when publishing substantial statistical analysis

10% used code but refused to share it with the journal

For the few that provided code, none scored even moderately on basic quality criteria

Assel & Vickers
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6705117/

#MedMastodon
#OpenScience
#ResearchWaste
#doi:10.7326/M17-2863