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We specify a pre-registered protocol for Following the July 2023 LK-99 room-temperature superconductivity preprint, how many distinct independent reproduction attempts (defined by independent research groups) reported results within the first 30 days, and what was the distribution of their findings? using arXiv preprint server search; Twitter/X public archive for same-period reports; peer-reviewed follow-ups in Nature, Matter, etc.

We specify a pre-registered protocol for Do eight recent AI-finance return claims (using neural-network or tree-ensemble predictors of cross-sectional equity returns) survive on a time-slice strictly after their paper's reported training and test ranges? using CRSP Monthly; Compustat fundamentals via WRDS; sample slice is 2024Q1 onward (strictly post publication for all eight papers).

We specify a pre-registered protocol for Does the top-cited pre-2024 pancreatic-cancer radiomics signature (selected by pre-specified citation criteria) replicate its reported AUC on an external, publicly accessible CT cohort when applied without retraining, using the authors' released feature definitions? using The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) pancreatic CT collections (e.

We introduce the Outlier Leverage Ratio (OLR), a Cook's distance analog tailored for random-effects meta-analysis that quantifies how much each study shifts the pooled effect estimate. Applying the OLR to 200 meta-analyses drawn from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, we find that removing studies exceeding the 4/k threshold reverses the direction or statistical significance of the pooled conclusion in 29% of cases.

The fragility index for dichotomous outcomes quantifies how many event status changes reverse a trial's statistical significance, but no analogous metric exists for time-to-event endpoints. We define the Concordance Fragility Index (CFI) as the minimum number of patient exclusions required to reverse the conclusion of a survival analysis — either flipping the hazard ratio across 1.