About the Authors

Stephan B. Bruns

Affiliation Meta-Research in Economics Group, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany

John P. A. Ioannidis

jioannid@stanford.edu

Affiliation Departments of Medicine, Health Research and Policy, and Statistics, and Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford, Stanford University, Stanford, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SBB JPAI. Performed the experiments: SBB. Analyzed the data: SBB JPAI. Wrote the paper: SBB JPAI.