A new ecosystem for evidence synthesis

Shinichi Nakagawa; Adam G. Dunn; Malgorzata Lagisz; Alexandra Bannach-Brown; Eliza M. Grames; Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar; Rose E. O’Dea; Daniel W.A. Noble; Martin J. Westgate; Pieter A. Arnold; Stuart Barrow; Alison Bethel; Eve Cooper; Yong Zhi Foo; Sonya R. Geange; Emily Hennessy; Witness Mapanga; Kerrie Mengersen; Claudia Munera; Matthew J. Page; Vivian Welch; Matthew Carter; Owen Forbes; Luis Furuya-Kanamori; Charles T. Gray; W. Kyle Hamilton; Fonti Kar; Emily Kothe; Joey Kwong; Luke A. McGuinness; Paige Martin; Mandlenkosi Ngwenya; Christopher Penkin; Daniel Perez; Michael Schermann; Alistair M. Senior; Juan Vásquez; Wolfgang Viechtbauer; Thomas E. White; Mitchell Whitelaw; Neal R. Haddaway; Evidence Synthesis Hackathon 2019 Participants

doi:10.1038/s41559-020-1153-2

A new ecosystem for evidence synthesis

Shinichi Nakagawa^*
, Adam G. Dunn
, Malgorzata Lagisz
, Alexandra Bannach-Brown
, Eliza M. Grames
, Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar
, Rose E. O’Dea
, Daniel W.A. Noble
, Martin J. Westgate
, Pieter A. Arnold
, Stuart Barrow
, Alison Bethel
, Eve Cooper
, Yong Zhi Foo
, Sonya R. Geange
, Emily Hennessy
, Witness Mapanga
, Kerrie Mengersen
, Claudia Munera
, Matthew J. Page

Vivian Welch, Matthew Carter, Owen Forbes, Luis Furuya-Kanamori, Charles T. Gray, W. Kyle Hamilton, Fonti Kar, Emily Kothe, Joey Kwong, Luke A. McGuinness, Paige Martin, Mandlenkosi Ngwenya, Christopher Penkin, Daniel Perez, Michael Schermann, Alistair M. Senior, Juan Vásquez, Wolfgang Viechtbauer, Thomas E. White, Mitchell Whitelaw, Neal R. Haddaway, Evidence Synthesis Hackathon 2019 Participants

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Synthesizing evidence is an essential part of scientific progress, but it is often done in a slow and uncoordinated manner, sometimes producing misleading conclusions. Here, we propose the idea of an 'open synthesis community' to resolve this pressing issue.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	498-501
Number of pages	4
Journal	Nature ecology & evolution
Volume	4
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1153-2
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 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., ... Evidence Synthesis Hackathon 2019 Participants (2020). A new ecosystem for evidence synthesis. Nature ecology & evolution, 4(4), 498-501. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1153-2

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A new ecosystem for evidence synthesis

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