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Methodological research on research integrity

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Methodological research on research integrity

Main collaborators: Mark Bolland, Andrew Grey, Greg Gamble (University of Auckland, New Zealand).

These studies receive no specific funding. Mark Bolland is the recipient of an HRC Clinical Practitioner Fellowship New Zealand. 

Statistical package for randomised trial assessment: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=reappraised

Blog: https://reappraised.wordpress.com/

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Status

Ongoing

Publications

Bolland MJ, Avenell A, Grey A. Baseline categorical variables in spine randomized controlled trials. 2023:PREPRINT (Version 1, 19 November 2023) available at Research Square [https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3622260/v1].

Wilkinson J, Heal C, Antoniou GA, Alfirevic Z, Avenell A, Barbour V, et al. Protocol for the development of a tool (INSPECT-SR) to identify problematic randomised controlled trials in systematic reviews of health interventions. medRxiv preprint 2023 doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.21.23295626

Bolland MJ, Gamble GD, Avenell A, Cooper D, Grey A. Distributions of baseline categorical variables were different from the expected distributions in randomized trials with integrity concerns. J Clin Epidemiol 2023;154:117-124.

Bolland MJ, Avenell A, Grey A. Responses to concerns raised about publications don’t address the concerns raised. Br J Pain 2023;17:426-427.

Bolland MJ, Avenell A, Grey A. Letter to the editor: Validity of tests for publication integrity. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics 2023 DOI: 10.1002/ijgo.15182

Grey A, Avenell A, Bolland M. Procrastination and inconsistency: expressions of concern for publications with compromised integrity. Accountability in Research 2022; https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2022.2112572

Avenell A, Bolland M, Gamble GD, Grey A. A randomized trial alerting authors, with or without co-authors or editors, that research they cited in systematic reviews and guidelines has been retracted. Accountability in Research 2022; https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2022.2082290

Bolland MJ, Gamble GD, Avenell A, Grey A. Identical summary statistics were uncommon in randomized trials and cohort studies. J Clin Epidemiol 2021;136:180-188.

Grey A, Avenell A, Bolland M. Timeliness and content of retraction notices for publications by a single research group: an observational study. Accountability in Research 2022;6:347-378. doi: 10.1080/08989621.2021.1920409

Bolland M, Grey A, Avenell A. Citation of retracted publications: a challenging problem. Accountability in Research 2021; DOI: 10.1080/08989621.2021.1886933

Bolland MJ, Gamble GD, Avenell A, Cooper D, Grey A, Lumley T. Participant withdrawals were unusually distributed in randomized trials with integrity concerns: a statistical investigation. J Clin Epidemiol 2021;131:22-9.

Bolland M, Grey A, Avenell A, Klein A. Correcting the scientific record – a broken system? Accountability in Research 2021;28:265-279.

Grey A, Avenell A, Gamble GD, Bolland M. Assessing and raising concerns about duplicate publication, authorship misconduct and data errors in a body of preclinical research. Sci Eng Ethics 2020;26:2069-96.

Bolland MJ, Gamble GD, Grey A, Avenell A. Empirically generated reference proportions for baseline p values from rounded summary statistics. Anaesthesia 2020;75:1685-1687.

Grey A, Bolland MJ, Avenell A, Klein A, Gunsalus CK. Check for publication integrity before misconduct. Nature 2020;577:167-9.

Avenell A, Stewart F, Grey A, Gamble G, Bolland M. An investigation into the impact and implications of published papers from retracted research: systematic search of affected literature. BMJ Open 2019; 9:e031909. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2019-031909

Bolland MJ, Gamble GD, Avenell A, Grey A, Lumley T. Baseline P value distributions in randomized trials were uniform for continuous but not categorical variables. J Clin Epidemiol 2019;112:67-76.

Bolland MJ, Gamble GD, Avenell A, Grey A. Rounding, but not randomization method, non-normality, or correlation, affected baseline P-value distributions in randomized trials. J Clin Epidemiol 2019;110:50-62. Corrigendum https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.05.017

Grey A, Bolland M, Gamble G, Avenell A. Quality of reports of investigations of research integrity by academic institutions. Research Integrity and Peer Review 2019;4:3

Bolland MJ, Avenell A, Gamble GD, Buranyi S, Grey A. A randomised investigation of journal responses to academic and journalist enquiry about possible scientific misconduct. BMC Research Notes 2018;11:521

Bolland MJ, Avenell A, Gamble GD, Grey A. Systematic review and statistical analysis of the integrity of 33 randomized controlled trials. Neurology 2016; 87: 1-12.