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    Incentives for good research software practices

    19 May 2020

    … results could not be reproduced which led to five paper retractions . An example from last year was the discovery …

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    Research Software Group update: software testing and a published paper

    18 August 2015

    … research codes leading to erroneous results and even paper retractions . With other researchers and …

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    Developing maintainable software

    06 October 2023

    … " A Scientist's Nightmare: Software Problem Leads to Five Retractions "). Secondly, there is pair programming, …

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    Meeting on Testing and Verification for Computational Science

    27 September 2016

    … errors can seriously undermine results leading to paper retractions, bad policy decisions, and even catastrophic …

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    Reproducible research – an impossible dream?

    21 March 2014

    … right? If only it was so clear cut. With high profile paper retractions and pushes for better data sharing by funders, …

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    Recommending practices for software sustainability

    03 March 2016

    … rise in software use will be accompanied by a rise in retractions. Ultimately, anyone who is concerned about the …

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    Christopher Woods: How to design and engineer good code for research

    11 March 2019

    … where a single incorrect character in a program led to five retractions from major journals including Science. Every …

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    GigaScience publishes a virtual box of delights to aid the fight against heart disease

    12 November 2014

    … world's number one cause of death, the rise in recent retractions of published scientific articles makes essential …

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    It's impossible to conduct research without software, say 7 out of 10 UK researchers

    04 December 2014

    … good code (that is, code that won’t later lead to paper retractions). And that’s only the case for reliability! We …

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    How to avoid having to retract your genomics analysis

    05 June 2015

    … go undetected. We may have to see additional publication retractions for the awareness of the risks to fully take … Featured Image Retractions.png Archive …

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