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A new ecosystem for evidence synthesis

Could creation of an “open synthesis community” enhance the practice of evidence synthesis?

Neal Haddaway / Published on 28 April 2020

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Nakagawa, S., Dunn, A. G., Lagisz, M., Bannach-Brown, A., Grames, E. M., Sánchez-Tójar, A., O’Dea, R. E., Noble, D. W. A., Westgate, M. J., Arnold, P. A., Barrow, S., Bethel, A., Cooper, E., Foo, Y. Z., Geange, S. R., Hennessy, E., Mapanga, W., Mengersen, K., Munera, C., Page, M. J., Welch, V., Evidence Synthesis Hackathon 2019 Participants and Haddaway, N. R. (2020). A new ecosystem for evidence synthesis. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 4(4). 498–501. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1153-2

Synthesizing evidence is an essential part of scientific progress, but it is often done in a slow and uncoordinated manner, sometimes producing misleading conclusions.

This article in Nature Ecology & Evolution proposes the idea of an “open synthesis community” to resolve this pressing issue.

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