Online tool calculates reproducibility scores of PubMed papers | Science | AAAS

"A new online tool unveiled 19 January measures the reproducibility of published scientific papers by analyzing data about articles that cite them.  The software comes at a time when scientific societies and journals are alarmed by evidence that findings in many published articles are not reproducible and are struggling to find reliable methods to evaluate whether they are. The tool, developed by the for-profit firm Verum Analytics in New Haven, Connecticut, generates a metric called the r-factor that indicates the veracity of a journal article based on the number of other studies that confirm or refute its findings. The r-factor metric has drawn much criticism from academics who said its relatively simple approach might not be sufficient to solve the multifaceted problem that measuring reproducibility presents...."