2017 PROSE Award Honorable Mention
The PROSE Awards draw attention to pioneering works of research and for contributions to the conception, production, and design of landmark works in their fields.
Featuring peer-reviewed contributions from noted experts in their fields of research, Reproducibility: Principles, Problems, Practices, and Prospects presents state-of-the-art approaches to reproducibility, the gold standard of sound science, from multi- and interdisciplinary perspectives. Including comprehensive coverage for implementing and reflecting the norm of reproducibility in various pertinent fields of research, the book focuses on how the reproducibility of results is applied, how it may be limited, and how such limitations can be understood or even controlled in the natural sciences, computational sciences, life sciences, social sciences, and studies of science and technology.
The book presents many chapters devoted to a variety of methods and techniques, as well as their epistemic and ontological underpinnings, which have been developed to safeguard reproducible research and curtail deficits and failures. The book also investigates the political, historical, and social practices that underlie reproducible research in contemporary science studies, including the difficulties of good scientific practice and the ethos of reproducibility in modern innovation societies.
Reproducibility: Principles, Problems, Practices, and Prospects is a guide for researchers who are interested in the general and overarching questions behind the concept of reproducibility; for active scientists who are confronted with practical reproducibility problems in their everyday work; and for economic stakeholders and political decision makers who need to better understand the challenges of reproducibility. In addition, the book is a useful in-depth primer for undergraduate and graduate-level courses in scientific methodology and basic issues in the philosophy and sociology of science from a modern perspective.
‘A comprehensive, insightful treatment of the reproducibility challenges facing science today and of ways in which the scientific community can address them.’ Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication, University of Pennsylvania
‘How can we make sure that reproducible research remains a key imperative of scientific communication under increasing commercialization, media attention, and publication pressure? This handbook offers the first interdisciplinary and fundamental treatment of this important question.’Torsten Hothorn, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Zurich
Harald Atmanspacher, Ph D, is Associate Fellow and staff member at Collegium Helveticum, ETH and University Zurich and is also President of the Society for Mind-Matter Research. He has pioneered advances in complex dynamical systems research and in a number of topics concerned with the relation between the mental and physical.
Sabine Maasen, Ph D, is Professor for Sociology of Science and Director of the Munich Center for Technology in Society (TU Munich) and Associate Fellow at Collegium Helveticum (ETH and University Zurich). Her research focuses on the interface of science, technology, and society, notably with respect to neuroscience and its applications.
Table des matières
Contributors ix
Introduction 1
Harald Atmanspacher and Sabine Maasen
PART I: CONTEXTUAL BACKGROUNDS
Introductory Remarks 9
Harald Atmanspacher
Reproducibility, Objectivity, Invariance 13
Holm Tetens
Reproducibility between Production and Prognosis 21
Walther Ch Zimmerli
Stability and Replication of Experimental Results: A Historical Perspective 39
Friedrich Steinle
Reproducibility of Experiments: Experimenters’ Regress, Statistical Uncertainty Principle, and the Replication Imperative 65
Harry Collins
PART II: STATISTICAL ISSUES
Introductory Remarks 83
Harald Atmanspacher
Statistical Issues in Reproducibility 87
Werner AStahel
Model Selection, Data Distributions and Reproducibility 115
Richard Shiffrin and Suyog Chandramouli
Reproducibility from the Perspective of Meta-Analysis 141
Werner Ehm
Why Are There so Many Clustering Algorithms, and How Valid Are Their Results? 169
Vladimir Estivill-Castro
PART III: PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Introductory Remarks 201
Harald Atmanspacher
Facilitating Reproducibility in Scientific Computing: Principles and Practice 205
David H Bailey, Jonathan M Borwein, and Victoria Stodden
Methodological Issues in the Study of Complex Systems 233
Harald Atmanspacher and Gerda Demmel
Rare and Extreme Events 251
Holger Kantz
Science under Societal Scrutiny: Reproducibility in Climate Science 269
Georg Feulner
PART IV: LIFE SCIENCES
Introductory Remarks 287
Harald Atmanspacher
From Mice to Men: Translation from Bench to Bedside 291
Marianne Martic-Kehl and P August Schubiger
A Continuum of Reproducible Research in Drug Development 315
Gerd Folkers and Sabine Baier
Randomness as a Building Block for Reproducibility in Local Cortical Networks 325
Johannes Lengler and Angelika Steger
Neural Reuse and in-Principle Limitations on Reproducibility in Cognitive Neuroscience 341
Michael L Anderson
On the Difference between Persons and Things-Reproducibility in Social Contexts 363
Kai Vogeley
PART V: SOCIAL SCIENCES
Introductory Remarks 385
Sabine Maasen and Harald Atmanspacher
Order Effects in Sequential Judgments and Decisions 391
Zheng Wang and Jerome Busemeyer
Reproducibility in the Social Sciences 407
Martin Reinhart
Accurate But Not Reproducible? The Possible Worlds of Public Opinion Research 425
Felix Keller
Depending on Numbers 447
Theodore M Porter
Science between Trust and Control: Non-Reproducibility in Scholarly Publishing 467
Martina Franzen
PART VI: WIDER PERSPECTIVES
Introductory Remarks 487
Sabine Maasen and Harald Atmanspacher
Repetition with a Difference: Reproducibility in Literature Studies 491
Ladina Bezzola Lambert
Repetition Impossible: Co-Affection by Mimesis and Self-Mimesis 511
Hinderk Emrich
Relevance Criteria for Reproducibility: The Contextual Emergence of Granularity 527
Harald Atmanspacher
The Quest for Reproducibility Viewed in the Context of Innovation Societies 541
Sabine Maasen
Index 563
A propos de l’auteur
Harald Atmanspacher, Ph D, is Associate Fellow and staff member at Collegium Helveticum, ETH and University Zurich and is also President of the Society for Mind-Matter Research. He has pioneered advances in complex dynamical systems research and in a number of topics concerned with the relation between the mental and physical.
Sabine Maasen, Ph D, is Professor for Sociology of Science and Director of the Munich Center for Technology in Society (TU Munich) and Associate Fellow at Collegium Helveticum (ETH and University Zurich). Her research focuses on the interface of science, technology, and society, notably with respect to neuroscience and its applications.
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