R. Barker Bausell is Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, where he served as a research methodologist and biostatistician on the faculties of both the schools of medicine and nursing for over 30 years. He has authored 14 scientifically related books, and founded and served for 33 years as the Editor-in-Chief of the refereed medical evaluation journal Evaluation & the Health Professions.

Partly an introductory survey of the reproducibility crisis, partly a series of recommendations to students and scholars that could, if employed, reduce the severity of the crisis, this work includes extensive endnotes with each chapter, providing access to a vast literature on this topic ... The reproducibility crisis is a problem of interest to a large readership spanning many disciplines. Many of the sources discussed, including some of the author's own previous works, would be an excellent starting point for more information about this topic. An essential acquisition for all academic and public libraries.

• Introduction Part I. BACKGROUND AND FACILITATORS OF THE CRISIS Chapter 1: Publication BiasChapter 2: False Positive Results and a Nontechnical Overview of their ModelingChapter 3: Questionable Research Practices (QRPs) and their Devastating Scientific EffectsChapter 4: A Few Case Studies of QRP Driven Irreproducibility EffectsChapter 5: The Return of Pathological Science (actually it never went away) Part II. APPROACHES FOR IDENTIFYING IRREPRODUCIBLE FINDINGS Chapter 6: The Replication ProcessChapter 7: Multiple-Study Replication InitiativesChapter 8: Damage Control for Learning that One's Study Failed to Replicate PART III: STRATEGIES FOR INCREASING THE REPRODUCIBILITY OF PUBLISHED SCIENTIFIC RESULTS Chapter 9: Publishing Issues and their Impact upon ReproducibilityChapter 10: Preregistration, Data Sharing, and Other Salutary BehaviorsChapter 11: A (Very) Few Concluding Thoughts

R. Barker Bausell is Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, where he served as a research methodologist and biostatistician on the faculties of both the schools of medicine and nursing for over 30 years. He has authored 14 scientifically related books, and founded and served for 33 years as the Editor-in-Chief of the refereed medical evaluation journal Evaluation & the Health Professions.

Partly an introductory survey of the reproducibility crisis, partly a series of recommendations to students and scholars that could, if employed, reduce the severity of the crisis, this work includes extensive endnotes with each chapter, providing access to a vast literature on this topic ... The reproducibility crisis is a problem of interest to a large readership spanning many disciplines. Many of the sources discussed, including some of the author's own previous works, would be an excellent starting point for more information about this topic. An essential acquisition for all academic and public libraries.

• Introduction Part I. BACKGROUND AND FACILITATORS OF THE CRISIS Chapter 1: Publication BiasChapter 2: False Positive Results and a Nontechnical Overview of their ModelingChapter 3: Questionable Research Practices (QRPs) and their Devastating Scientific EffectsChapter 4: A Few Case Studies of QRP Driven Irreproducibility EffectsChapter 5: The Return of Pathological Science (actually it never went away) Part II. APPROACHES FOR IDENTIFYING IRREPRODUCIBLE FINDINGS Chapter 6: The Replication ProcessChapter 7: Multiple-Study Replication InitiativesChapter 8: Damage Control for Learning that One's Study Failed to Replicate PART III: STRATEGIES FOR INCREASING THE REPRODUCIBILITY OF PUBLISHED SCIENTIFIC RESULTS Chapter 9: Publishing Issues and their Impact upon ReproducibilityChapter 10: Preregistration, Data Sharing, and Other Salutary BehaviorsChapter 11: A (Very) Few Concluding Thoughts