Rethinking research reproducibility

Rethinking Warehouse Design Research

The Keck Virtual Factory Lab (KVFL) was created to be a platform for computationally-based research on industrial logistics systems, and currently engages nine faculty and over a dozen graduate students. Initially, the KVFL has focused on warehousing and the development of integrated computational tools to support warehouse design and optimization, and warehousing-related courses. Recent collab...

Rethinking research ethics.

Contemporary research ethics policies started with reflection on the atrocities perpetrated upon concentration camp inmates by Nazi doctors. Apparently, as a consequence of that experience, the policies that now guide human subject research focus on the protection of human subjects by making informed consent the centerpiece of regulatory attention. I take the choice of context for policy design...

Reproducibility in research

Progress in biomedical research depends in part on being able to build on the findings of other researchers - and thereby on being able to apply others' methods to your own research. However, most of us have struggled to understand how to repeat or adapt another researcher's study because of minimal or missing details in the Methods section of a published paper. In expensive and complex experim...

Guest Editorial: Rethinking research training.

What does research reproducibility mean?

The language and conceptual framework of "research reproducibility" are nonstandard and unsettled across the sciences. In this Perspective, we review an array of explicit and implicit definitions of reproducibility and related terminology, and discuss how to avoid potential misunderstandings when these terms are used as a surrogate for "truth."