Goodman et al. recommend the use of a single word – “reproducibility” – currently the most common single term in this field, and adding to it various descriptors for related constructs. This would produce three different terms: results reproducibility, methods reproducibility, and inferential reproducibility.

Results reproducibility relates to achieving the same results by conducting independent research whose methods are as true as possible to those of the original study.

Methods reproducibility relates to providing sufficient details on research procedures and data to make the very same procedures, in principle or practice, fully reproducible.

Inferential reproducibility relates to drawing qualitatively similar conclusions either from an independent replication study or a re-analysis of the original research.

References:

Goodman, S. N., Fanelli, D., & Ioannidis, J. P. A. (2016). What does research reproducibility mean? Science Translational Medicine, 8(341), 312-341. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaf5027

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