Which of the following publications would be considered part of the the scientific literature?
Which of the following statements best describes the role of the scientific literature in conducting research?
A research paper by several scientists was published in Nature (a prestigious science journal). One year later, other scientists in the same discipline discovered mistakes in the procedures used and alerted the authors. The authors agreed that they had made mistakes, which they had not recognized earlier. They could no longer be confident in their results, so they asked Nature to retract their paper, or remove it from publication. Which of the following statements best describes this situation?
In writing up the results of a recent experiment for publication, a scientist comes across a study in which the authors describe a similar experiment with different results. What would be the most appropriate way for the scientist to address this in her journal article?
How do most scientists search for and find relevant information in the scientific literature?
Once data are published in the scientific literature, there would be no reason to reanalyze those data later.
Citing others in your research papers is good practice because
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