Announcement of Biomedical Refutations
Dear all,
RASPI is back with its first action to tackle the challenges of modern scientific publishing. We are glad to announce our willingness to create a journal with the main aim of publishing negative results.
The failure to systematically publish negative results has a significant impact on science because it reinforces publication bias, obscures failures, and distorts the evidence base. This leads to duplicative efforts, poor reproducibility, and substantial wasted resources, while also undermining scientific competitiveness by steering researchers toward approaches that appear successful but are not. Despite these clear impacts, the issue is still not properly tackled: current publication practices and incentive structures continue to marginalize negative results, allowing inefficiencies and distortions to persist across the scientific enterprise
From RASPI, we’d like to bolster the creation of Biomedical Refutations, with the hope that will serve as a pilot for future Refutations series. With this, we aim to create a fully indexed, open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing negative results and refutations of hypotheses arising from high-quality research projects.
We are still in the first stages of its development. We need you. This is the opportunity to participate and help shape this initiative.
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