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Investigating the replicability of the social and behavioural sciences

AH Tyner, AL Abatayo, M Daley, S Field, N Fox, NA Haber, KM Hahn, MK Struhl, B Mawhinney, O Miske, P Silverstein, CK Soderberg, T Stankov, A Abbasi, CL Aberson, B Aczel, M Adamkovič, N Albayrak, PJ Allen, M Andreychik, et al.

Journal article  |  2026  |  Nature

Pursuing replicability — independent evidence for previous claims — is important for creating generalizable knowledge1,2. Here we ..

Measurement-Reporting Practices in Social-and-Personality-Psychology Articles

KM Lawson, JG Bottesini, LD Khong, S Vazire

Journal article  |  2026  |  Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science

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Psychological scientists are increasingly acknowledging the importance of transparency for research integrity. In the present stud..

A Consensus Statement on self-knowledge conceptualization, measurement, outcomes and changeability

I Thielmann, MD Back, W Bleidorn, H Bukowski, EN Carlson, M Dufner, G Hofer, W Hofmann, CJ Hopwood, LJ Human, CH Jordan, JI Krueger, J Langdon, R Rau, LD Smillie, N Strohminger, J Sun, S Vazire, M Burghart, N Casali, et al.

Journal article  |  2026  |  Nature Reviews Psychology

Self-knowledge plays a central role in contemporary psychological science across various domains, including interpersonal relation..

Evaluation of the replicability of systematic reviews with meta-analyses of the effects of health interventions

DG Hamilton, JE Mckenzie, PY Nguyen, ML Rethlefsen, S Mcdonald, SE Brennan, FM Fidler, JPT Higgins, R Kanukula, S Karunananthan, LJ Maxwell, D Moher, S Nakagawa, D Nunan, P Tugwell, VA Welch, MJ Page

Journal article  |  2026  |  Research Synthesis Methods

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Systematic reviews are often characterized as being inherently replicable, but several studies have challenged this claim. The obj..

Comparing expert assessments of research quality between the Global North and East Africa

J Singh, F Mody, M Schmidt, S Shari, J Wambua, D Wilkinson, P Forscher

Journal article  |  2025  |  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences

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This study investigates how expert assessments of the quality of behavioural science research vary across geographic and epistemic..

Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology

E Gould, HS Fraser, TH Parker, S Nakagawa, SC Griffith, PA Vesk, F Fidler, DG Hamilton, RN Abbey-Lee, JK Abbott, LA Aguirre, C Alcaraz, I Aloni, D Altschul, K Arekar, JW Atkins, J Atkinson, CM Baker, M Barrett, K Bell, et al.

Journal article  |  2025  |  BMC Biology

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Although variation in effect sizes and predicted values among studies of similar phenomena is inevitable, such variation far excee..

The influence of public policy and administration expertise on policy: an empirical study

R Haunschild, K Williams, L Bornmann

Journal article  |  2025  |  Evidence and Policy

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Academic expertise is a key pillar of governance processes around the world. A goal of policy and public sector actors is to draw ..

Public Opinion and China's Strategic Communication: Responses to Coercion and Persuasion

GAM Davies, K Edney, K Williams

Journal article  |  2025  |  Foreign Policy Analysis

How publics respond to foreign state communications is an important yet relatively unexplored aspect of public diplomacy. In this ..

Enhancing the quality and reproducibility of research: Preferred Evaluation of Cognitive and Neuropsychological Studies - The PECANS statement for human studies

C Costa, R Pezzetta, E Toffalini, M Grassi, G Cona, C Miniussi, PJ Bauer, S Borgomaneri, M Brysbaert, CD Chambers, N Edelstyn, A Eerland, SJ Gilbert, MA Nitsche, RA Poldrack, A Puce, KR Ridderinkhof, TY Swaab, C Umiltà, M Wiener, et al.

Journal article  |  2025  |  Behavior Research Methods

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Are scientific papers providing all essential details necessary to ensure the replicability of study protocols? Are authors effect..

Explicit value trade-offs in conservation: integrating animal welfare

KE Lynch, BL Allen, O Berger-Tal, F Fidler, GE Garrard, JO Hampton, CH Lean, KM Parris, SL Sherwen, TE White, BBM Wong, DT Blumstein

Journal article  |  2025  |  Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Conservation is an evolving discipline, with its values changing over time. Animal welfare is gaining attention, but can conflict ..