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Press Release

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"There are a lot of open questions about the factors that foster credibility and repeatability of research findings. Like many productive research efforts, SCORE generated insights, and has prompted even more questions about how to evaluate research in practice."

Fiona Fidler, a SCORE project leader and Professor at the University of Melbourne

Related Resources

  • Predicting Replicability Challenge: An open competition for AI/ML models to predict replicability of research findings. This project is a direct extension of the primary aim of SCORE.

  • Lifecycle Journal: An experimental reimagining of scholarly communication and publishing that provides a platform for independent human, machine, and empirical evaluation services to assess research across the lifecycle.

  • Scaling Machine Assessments of Research Trustworthiness (SMART): Follow-on research from SCORE involving piloting the use of machine assessments of replicability to assess their value and limitations.

  • repliCATS: repliCATS is a University of Melbourne research project that uses structured group deliberation to evaluate the credibility and trustworthiness of research claims and explore how those methods can improve scientific assessment and peer review.

  • COVID-SCORE: SCORE was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic. The team did a side project to test its models on a sample of COVID preprints and published some of the outcomes in 2025 in Nature Human Behaviour.

  • Reproducibility Project: Psychology: A similar project that replicated 100 findings from psychology. Published in 2015 in Science.

  • Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology: A similar project that published high-impact findings from pre-clinical cancer biology. Published in eLife in 2021. 

Questions about the project can be directed to cosscore@cos.io.