A replication status badge on every cancer paper, visible in PubMed
When you look up a paper, you should immediately see whether anyone has tried to repeat it and whether they succeeded.
Replication status is scattered across follow-up papers, preprints and comments (PubPeer). A curated, structured layer linking each paper to registered replication attempts and their outcomes (replicated, partially, failed, not attempted), displayed alongside abstracts in PubMed and Europe PMC via existing annotation mechanisms, would make reproducibility visible at the point of reading and reward replicators with attribution.
- Preclinical results do not reproduce · Fewer than half of landmark cancer biology findings reproduce when someone else tries.
- Knowledge reaches practice too slowly · Knowledge diffusion is slow: it takes years for a proven result to change what most patients receive, and no one can keep up with the literature.
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not linked directly; found by shared links- IdeaFunders set aside a fixed share of budget for independent replication
Shares Every cancer biology PhD begins with a funded replication of a published finding, Bounties for documented failed replications of high-impact findings, Preclinical results do not reproduce.
- IdeaFunded living systematic reviews for every major cancer indication
Shares PubMed & Europe PMC, Knowledge reaches practice too slowly.
- IdeaA registry for preclinical experiments that did not work
Shares Bounties for documented failed replications of high-impact findings, PubMed & Europe PMC, Preclinical results do not reproduce.
- IdeaAutomatic flagging of retracted or corrected evidence in guidelines and decision support
Shares Preclinical results do not reproduce, Knowledge reaches practice too slowly.
- IdeaOpen-source protocol and statistical analysis plan templates with runnable code
Shares Preclinical results do not reproduce, Knowledge reaches practice too slowly.
- InstitutionEuropean Association for Cancer Research
Shares Preclinical results do not reproduce, Knowledge reaches practice too slowly.
- IdeaScoop protection and co-publication norms to reduce academic secrecy
Shares Preclinical results do not reproduce, Knowledge reaches practice too slowly.
- InstitutionEMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute
Shares PubMed & Europe PMC, Knowledge reaches practice too slowly.