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Scientific Auditing Firms

Computers and Society 2018-04-24 v3 Physics and Society

Abstract

The "crisis of reproducibility" has been a significant source of controversy, heated debate, and calls for reform to institutional science in recent years. As a long-term solution to address both the present crisis and future obstacles, I propose the creation of a new form of research organization whose purpose would be to conduct random audits of the scientific literature. I suggest that data analytics of a digitized scientific corpus may play a critical role in allowing broadly educated scientists to identify linchpin results to investigate in further detail across all disciplines. I argue that a simple "mock" trial run of a simplified auditing firm consisting of several researchers over a short time period would provide valuable insight into the feasibility of this proposal.

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@article{arxiv.1608.00689,
  title  = {Scientific Auditing Firms},
  author = {Gopal P. Sarma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.00689},
  year   = {2018}
}

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