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Illuminating ‘the ugly side of science’: fresh incentives for reporting negative results

New data repositories and alternative journals and workshops offer routes for sharing negative results — which could help to solve the reproducibility crisis and give machine learning a boost.
  1. Rachel Brazil

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Editor-in-chief Sarahanne Field describes herself and her team at the Journal of Trial & Error as wanting to highlight the “ugly side of science — the parts of the process that have gone wrong”.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-01389-7

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