https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK350344/ http://www.nature.com/news/nih-mulls-rules-for-validating-key-results-1.13469?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20130801 https://getsyeducated.substack.com/p/pnas-is-not-a-good-journal - see the "decline effect" (decline.png here) From Liz Heitman to Bruce Damon about his grant submission: In anticipation of a positive review, I’d like to point you to another resource. I was just at the fall meeting of the NAS Board on Life Sciences where we heard a report on 2-day session on reproducibility in animal research convened in June by the Institute of Laboratory Animal Research (ILAR) Roundtable. The formal written report on the Roundtable has not yet been released, but there is a lot of information from the meeting, including videos, available at http://nas-sites.org/ilar-roundtable/roundtable-activities/reproducibility/