McNutt

The journalScienceis adding an extra round of statistical checks to its peer-review process, editor-in-chief Marcia McNutt announced today.

Readers must have confidence in the conclusions published in our journal,” writes McNutt in an editorial.

Asked whether any particular papers had impelled the change, McNutt said: “The creation of the ‘statistics board’ was motivated by concerns broadly with the application of statistics and data analysis in scientific research and is part of Science’s overall drive to increase reproducibility in the research we publish.

"Readers must have confidence in the conclusions published in our journal," writes McNutt in an editorial.

The journal Sciences is adding an extra round of statistical checks to its peer-review process, editor-in-chief Marcia McNutt announced today.