Academic Publications

The standards by which qualitative and quantitative research are judged to be true and trustworthy.
Credibility and Validity

The tendency for the significance of scientific results to fade over time with repeated testing.
Decline Effects

Research that concerns scientific practice itself, including everything from scientific integrity to research methodology.
Meta-Research

Investigations into the reliability and validity of the design, implementation and analysis of research protocols.
Methodological Critiques

Often called Questionable Research Practices (QRPs), research misconduct concerns sub-optimal research practices that result in faulty findings, whether through intentionally fraudulent techniques, or poorly planned and executed protocols.
Misconduct

A form of bias that results in either intentionally or accidentally non-representative research in favor of a particular political ideology or motive.
Political Bias

A form of bias that favors the publication of results that are in a particular direction or that demonstrate a particular significance level.
Publication Bias

The repetition of the methods and protocols employed in a study to determine whether the initial findings are robust and/or generalizable.
Replication

A public statement removing previously published research findings from the literature when it is discovered that these findings are invalid, unreliable, or fraudulent.
Retraction

Analyses of the robustness of results through the use of statistical tools, such as evaluating the p-curve, replicability index, or using software to test for image manipulation.
Statistical Perspectives