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Robust research: Institutions must do their part for reproducibility

Tie funding to verified good institutional practice, and robust science will shoot up the agenda, say C. Glenn Begley, Alastair M. Buchan and Ulrich Dirnagl.

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Begley, C., Buchan, A. & Dirnagl, U. Robust research: Institutions must do their part for reproducibility. Nature 525, 25–27 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/525025a

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