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Most insect studies lack crucial species information

Brian Owens · February 2, 2018 ·

Survey results suggest that a lot of entomology research could be impossible to replicate.

More than 98% of entomology papers contain so little species information on the insects being studied that they are essentially impossible to replicate, according to a survey of more than 550 articles published in 2016. Read more in Nature.

Nature entomology, publishing, replication, science, taxonomy

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