Monya Baker's 2016 survey article in Nature reporting that more than 70 percent of surveyed researchers had tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiment, and more than half had failed to reproduce their own, the single most cited data point behind the term reproducibility crisis.
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AuthorMonya Baker
PublisherNature
Publication Year2016
URLhttps://www.nature.com/articles/533452a
Source Typejournalism
Reliability Tier1
Published in Nature, one of the two most cited general science journals, reporting a peer-surveyed dataset rather than opinion; tier 1 for the same reason any other Nature news-and-analysis piece reporting primary survey data is. Sources
1,500 Scientists Lift the Lid on Reproducibility (Nature)
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