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Software can already spot impossible statistics, mismatched p-values and duplicated images in a paper. Journals should run these checks on every submission, as spell-check runs on every document.
Tools such as statcheck (recomputing p-values from reported test statistics), GRIM and SPRITE (checking whether means are possible given sample sizes) and image-duplication detectors identify errors and manipulation at scale. Some journals run image checks; almost none run statistical checks routinely. Integrating a pipeline at submission, with results shown to authors and reviewers, would catch a substantial fraction of errors before publication and deter fabrication.
Shares Deposit the raw blots, gels and microscopy images behind every figure, Preclinical results do not reproduce.
Shares Deposit the raw blots, gels and microscopy images behind every figure, Preclinical results do not reproduce.
Shares Deposit the raw blots, gels and microscopy images behind every figure, Preclinical results do not reproduce.
Shares Paid independent statistical review for preclinical papers that inform trials, Preclinical results do not reproduce.