Brodeur Study Finds 85% Social Papers Reproducible
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- Abel Brodeur led a new study published in Nature that examined the robustness of social‑science research.
- The SCORE project previously reviewed nearly 4,000 social‑science papers and found that half of the studies could not be replicated.
- Brodeur’s team re‑examined 110 articles from 2022‑2023 single‑day events and reported that 85 % were computationally reproducible.
- Data‑sharing practices in the new study showed improved disclosure of data and code compared with the SCORE papers from 2009‑2018.
- Open‑science advocates say that routine reproducibility and public data/code can level the playing field for researchers at lower‑resource institutions and developing nations.
Why it matters: Policymakers and funding agencies gain more reliable evidence for decisions, while researchers at under‑resourced institutions benefit from easier access to data and code; the higher reproducibility rate also helps restore public confidence in social‑science findings and encourages journals to adopt stricter data‑availability policies.
