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While reproducibility has long been a cornerstone of the scientific method, it is currently an active area for reaffirming scientific standards. Medicine, psychology, neuroscience, genetics, and economics are examples of fields actively working to assess the quality of their science.
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Caplan, A.L., Redman, B.K. (2018). Reproducibility. In: Caplan, A., Redman, B. (eds) Getting to Good. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51358-4_3
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