# Nature: Software searches out reproducibility issues in scientific papers

**URL:** https://onscienceandacademia.org/t/nature-software-searches-out-reproducibility-issues-in-scientific-papers/537
**Category:** Open and replicable science
**Tags:** reproducibility
**Created:** [January 22, 2020, 8:35pm UTC](https://onscienceandacademia.org/t/nature-software-searches-out-reproducibility-issues-in-scientific-papers/537 "2020-01-22T20:35:39Z")
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### Author: ![rebecca](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/onscienceandacademia.org/rebecca/32/520_2.png) [@rebecca](https://onscienceandacademia.org/u/rebecca)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2020, 8:35pm UTC](https://onscienceandacademia.org/t/nature-software-searches-out-reproducibility-issues-in-scientific-papers/537/1 "2020-01-22T20:35:39Z")

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“Researchers are getting better at communicating science in a rigorous and reproducible way, according to a text-mining analysis of around 1.6 million papers. But the findings have also sparked fears that progress is too slow.”

[https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00104-6](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00104-6)

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### Author: ![Gavin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/439d5e/32.png) [@Gavin](https://onscienceandacademia.org/u/Gavin)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2020, 10:51pm UTC](https://onscienceandacademia.org/t/nature-software-searches-out-reproducibility-issues-in-scientific-papers/537/2 "2020-01-23T22:51:51Z")

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It would be interesting to compare the results of SciScore (which I guess represent our prior expectations for what makes reproducible research) to [Scite](https://scite.ai/) (which would ideally represent the reality of what is reproducible, based on if studies are confirmed or contradicted).