The Brain Imaging Replication Crisis
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Neurotechnology and Neuroimaging".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 August 2022) | Viewed by 5380
Special Issue Editor
Interests: adult psychiatry; geriatric psychiatry; mood disorders; brain fMRI; brain functional connectivity; visual inspection of independent components; dual regression
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Evidence-based medicine and all scientific advancements depend on the ability to replicate scientific findings. Some irreplicable results are expected in the course of the scientific evaluation supported by statistical testing, for example, with the conventional α = 0.05. However, current evidence indicates that actual rates of non-replication across a wide variety of scientific endeavors are much higher than 0.05—a problem known as the replication crisis. Factors that can contribute to this problem include academic and financial incentives; publication practices; limitations in the sensitivity and reliability of scientific tests; “p-hacking” and “HARKing” that inflate effective p-values for experiments; methodological errors. The replication crisis significantly impacts the field of brain imaging, despite of and perhaps because of the methodological complexity involved with this field. The severity of the problem is a subject of much discussion and debate, but the problem remains largely unsolved, with the potential to seriously impede scientific progress.
This Special Issue is a forum for ideas concerning the replication crisis as it applies to brain imaging. Welcome are summaries and short communications concerning the problem and existing solutions, as well as original research papers with new ideas for how to address it. Such papers could include descriptions of improved methods, openly available tools, or attempts to replicate previous studies.
Dr. Robert Emmett Kelly
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- brain imaging
- replication crisis
- reproducibility
- irreplicable results
- open science
- evidence-based medicine
- publication bias
- academic incentives
- p-hacking
- HARKing
