Investigating the reproducibility of the social and behavioural sciences

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dc.abstract.enPublished claims should be reproducible, yielding the same result when the same analysis is applied to the same data. Here we assess reproducibility in a stratified random sample of 600 papers published from 2009 to 2018 in 62 journals spanning the social and behavioural sciences. The authors of 144 (24.0%, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 20.8–27.6%) papers made data available to assess reproducibility and, for 38 others, we obtained source data to reconstruct the dataset. We assessed 143 out of the 182 available datasets and found that 76.6 (53.6%, 95% CI = 45.8–60.7%) papers were rated as precisely reproducible and 105.0 (73.5%, 95% CI = 66.4–80.0%) were rated as at least approximately reproducible (within 15% of the original effects or within 0.05 of original P values) after inverse weighting each of the 551 claims by the number of claims per paper. We observed higher reproducibility for papers from political science and economics compared with other fields, for more recent papers compared with older papers and for papers from journals that require data sharing. Implementation of measures to verify that research is reproducible is needed to support trustworthiness in the complex enterprise of knowledge production.
dc.affiliationWydział Psychologii we Wrocławiu
dc.contributor.authorMiske, Olivia
dc.contributor.authorAbatayo, Anna Lou
dc.contributor.authorDaley, Mason
dc.contributor.authorDirzo, Mirka
dc.contributor.authorFox, Nicholas
dc.contributor.authorHaber, Noah
dc.contributor.authorHahn, Krystal M.
dc.contributor.authorStruhl, Melissa Kline
dc.contributor.authorMawhinney, Brinna
dc.contributor.authorSilverstein, Priya
dc.contributor.authorStankov, Theresa
dc.contributor.authorTyner, Andrew H.
dc.contributor.authorAdamkovič, Matúš
dc.contributor.authorAlzahawi, Shilaan
dc.contributor.authorAnafinova, Saule
dc.contributor.authorAwtrey, Eli
dc.contributor.authorAxxe, Erick
dc.contributor.authorBailey, James
dc.contributor.authorBakker, Bert N.
dc.contributor.authorBalaji, Akshaya
dc.contributor.authorBanik, Gabriel
dc.contributor.authorBartoš, František
dc.contributor.authorBerkman, Henk
dc.contributor.authorBerry, Zachariah
dc.contributor.authorBethke, Felix S.
dc.contributor.authorBrady, Timothy F.
dc.contributor.authorBreznau, Nate
dc.contributor.authorCapitan, Sara
dc.contributor.authorCapitán, Tabaré
dc.contributor.authorCaquelin, Laura
dc.contributor.authorCheng, Kent Jason
dc.contributor.authorChopik, William J.
dc.contributor.authorClochard, Gwen-Jiro
dc.contributor.authorCoupé, Tom
dc.contributor.authorCummins, Jamie
dc.contributor.authorBurak, Elif Gizem Demirag
dc.contributor.authorDuan, Jianhua
dc.contributor.authorEsterling, Kevin M.
dc.contributor.authorEvans, Thomas R.
dc.contributor.authorFiala, Nathan
dc.contributor.authorField, James
dc.contributor.authorGay, Victor
dc.contributor.authorGeng, Jing
dc.contributor.authorGereke, Johanna
dc.contributor.authorGleibs, Ilka Helene
dc.contributor.authorGourdon-Kanhukamwe, Amélie
dc.contributor.authorGrigoryev, Dmitry
dc.contributor.authorGunby, Nicholas
dc.contributor.authorHanel, Paul H. P.
dc.contributor.authorHong, Sanghyun
dc.contributor.authorHoulihan, Sean Dae
dc.contributor.authorHuntington-Klein, Nick
dc.contributor.authorIzydorczak, Kamil
dc.contributor.authorJankowsky, Kristin
dc.contributor.authorJonas, Kai
dc.contributor.authorKačmár, Pavol
dc.contributor.authorKapoor, Hansika
dc.contributor.authorKarcher, Sebastian
dc.contributor.authorKołczyńska, Marta
dc.contributor.authorKretschmer, David
dc.contributor.authorLazarevic, Ljiljana
dc.contributor.authorLeahy, Katelin E.
dc.contributor.authorLee, Jessica C.
dc.contributor.authorLimnios, Christopher
dc.contributor.authorLiu, An-Chiao
dc.contributor.authorLloyd, John Wills
dc.contributor.authorLopez-Nicolas, Ruben
dc.contributor.authorLou, Nigel Mantou
dc.contributor.authorLucas, Richard E.
dc.contributor.authorMaier, Maximilian
dc.contributor.authorMallinson, Daniel J.
dc.contributor.authorMartončik, Marcel
dc.contributor.authorMcCall, Michael C.
dc.contributor.authorMehta, Nikita
dc.contributor.authorMéndez, Esteban
dc.contributor.authorMichalak, Johannes
dc.contributor.authorMolden, Daniel C.
dc.contributor.authorMushtaq, Faisal
dc.contributor.authorNeuendorf, Claudia
dc.contributor.authorNichols, Austin Lee
dc.contributor.authorNilsonne, Gustav
dc.contributor.authorO’Boyle, Ernest
dc.contributor.authorOh, Jeewon
dc.contributor.authorOstermann, Thomas
dc.contributor.authorOyebanjo, Abiola
dc.contributor.authorPanczak, Radoslaw
dc.contributor.authorPavlov, Yuri
dc.contributor.authorPavlović, Zoran
dc.contributor.authorPeter, Noemi
dc.contributor.authorPeters, Kim
dc.contributor.authorPorter, Nathaniel
dc.contributor.authorPurol, Mariah
dc.contributor.authorPuthillam, Arathy
dc.contributor.authorRamljak, Marco
dc.contributor.authorReader, Arran
dc.contributor.authorReed, W. Robert
dc.contributor.authorRöer, Jan Philipp
dc.contributor.authorRopovik, Ivan
dc.contributor.authorSavi, Alexander
dc.contributor.authorSchmidt, Kathleen
dc.contributor.authorSchnabel, Landon
dc.contributor.authorSevigny, Eric
dc.contributor.authorShaki, Samuel
dc.contributor.authorShakya, Shishir
dc.contributor.authorSoh, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorSomo, Angela
dc.contributor.authorSonmez, Fatih
dc.contributor.authorStrømland, Eirik
dc.contributor.authorSuchow, Jordan
dc.contributor.authorSzabelska, Anna
dc.contributor.authorTagat, Anirudh
dc.contributor.authorTutor, Melba Verra
dc.contributor.authorUrbanska, Karolina
dc.contributor.authorDessel, Pieter Van
dc.contributor.authorVargo, Elisabeth Julie
dc.contributor.authorVo, Diem Thi Hong
dc.contributor.authorVolkman, Victor
dc.contributor.authorWang, Ke
dc.contributor.authorWichman, Aaron L.
dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Jamal R.
dc.contributor.authorWinter, Fabian
dc.contributor.authorWintermantel, Ferdinand
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Nan
dc.contributor.authorZiano, Ignazio
dc.contributor.authorZogmaister, Cristina
dc.contributor.authorZupan, Zorana
dc.contributor.authorNosek, Brian A.
dc.contributor.authorErrington, Timothy M.
dc.date.access2026-07-01
dc.date.accessioned2026-04-28T07:10:02Z
dc.date.available2026-04-28T07:10:02Z
dc.date.created2026-01-27
dc.date.issued2026-04-01
dc.description.accesstimeafter_publication
dc.description.physical126–134
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dc.description.versionfinal_author
dc.description.volume652
dc.identifier.doi10.1038/s41586-026-10203-5
dc.identifier.eissn1476-4687
dc.identifier.issn0028-0836
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/2319
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10203-5
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationpsychologia
dc.rightsEmbargo
dc.rights.questionYes_rights
dc.share.articleOPEN_REPOSITORY
dc.subject.encredibility
dc.subject.enreproducibility
dc.subject.enreliability
dc.subject.envalidity
dc.subject.eneconomics
dc.subject.enpolitical science
dc.subject.enpsychology
dc.subject.enmarketing
dc.subject.ensociology
dc.subject.enfinance
dc.subject.enmanagement
dc.subject.enpublic administration
dc.subject.enorganizational behavior
dc.subject.eneducation
dc.subject.encriminology
dc.subject.enhealth research
dc.swps.sciencecloudsend
dc.titleInvestigating the reproducibility of the social and behavioural sciences
dc.title.journalNature
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typeArticle