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Huge meta-research project puts claims in social-science papers to the test

Three experts discuss lessons learnt from a large-scale dissection of the reproducibility, analytical robustness and replicability of published results.
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  1. Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar

    1. Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar is in the Meta-research Team at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, and the Center for Innovative Biomedicine and Biotechnology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra 3004-504, Portugal.

  2. Jelte M. Wicherts

    1. Jelte M. Wicherts is in the Department of Methodology and Statistics, Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Tilburg University, 5000 LE Tilburg, the Netherlands.

  3. Robb Willer

    1. Robb Willer is in the Politics and Social Change Lab, the AI for Public Benefit Lab and the Department of Sociology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.

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Nature 652, 39-41 (2026)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-00805-4

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