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Give every paper a read for reproducibility

I was hired to ferret out errors and establish routines that promote rigorous research, says Catherine Winchester.
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  1. Catherine Winchester

    1. Catherine Winchester is the grants- and research-integrity adviser at the Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute in Glasgow.

In 2012, I saw an advertisement for an unusual new role, and knew I was the one for the job. Leaders at the Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute, a non-profit organization in Glasgow, had created a position to weave discussion of and practices for research integrity into the daily routines of its roughly 300 researchers.

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Nature 557, 281 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-05140-x

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