AVS 66th International Symposium & Exhibition
    New Challenges to Reproducible Data and Analysis Focus Topic Wednesday Sessions
       Session RA+AS+CA+PS+TF-WeM

Invited Paper RA+AS+CA+PS+TF-WeM3
Directly Assessing Reproducibility in Materials Chemistry Research Using Literature Meta-analysis

Wednesday, October 23, 2019, 8:40 am, Room A124-125

Session: Reproducibility in Science and Engineering, Including Materials and Energy Systems
Presenter: David Sholl, Georgia Institute of Technology
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While it is widely agreed that making reported research more reproducible is a desirable goal, less is known about how reproducible current work in materials chemistry is. I will discuss using literature meta-analysis as a tool to obtain quantitative insight into the reproducibility of materials chemistry experiments. Case studies will be discussed involving measurements of gas adsorption in metal-organic frameworks and the synthesis of metal-organic framework materials. These are useful examples to study because comprehensive databases of information from the open literature are available, but they share features that are common in many areas of material chemistry. Insights from these case studies suggest possible paths towards improving data reproducibility for individual researchers, for academic departments and for professional organizations.