Huge meta-research project puts claims in social-science papers to the test

2026/04/01 by Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar, Jelte M. Wicherts, Robb Willer · 2 voices · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Decision Sciences · #Academic Writing and Publishing #Dissection (medical) #Meta-analysis and systematic reviews #Robustness (evolution) #Test (biology) #Work (physics) #scientometrics and bibliometrics research

paper · doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00805-4

published in Nature 652(8108), 39-41 (Nature Portfolio)

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