SciScore for Rigor and Reproducibility

During the Rubber-meets-the-road panel at the 2019 STM Conference in London, Anita Bandrowski and Martijn Roelandse presented new means to measure transparency and reproducibility of biomedical journals.

These means are based on SciScore —, a tool that can evaluate whether the authors have addressed blinding, sex, and randomization of subjects into groups, power analysis, as well as key resources. These are all difficult and tedious things for humans to check, but critical if we want to measure — and ultimately improve — the quality of the science being conducted and published.

The first results have been presented in London.