Aston University biostatistician Dr. Dan Green has identified the top ten errors he commonly sees in research papers in his work as a statistical reviewer for scientific and medical journals.

Aston University biostatistician Dr Dan Green has identified the top ten errors he commonly sees in research papers in his work as a statistical reviewer for scientific and medical journals.

Once you’ve laid your hands on a paper, you may also check the citation number, usually off to the side or at the bottom. This number represents how many times other papers have cited this one.

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France, for example, is one of the world’s leaders in research integrity, he notes, and the work of sleuths resulted in a lot of retractions in 2024.