A searchable index of real negative results, null findings, and replication failures from the published literature — so you can learn what didn't work before repeating it.
WASTE indexes published research — it does not host or republish full papers. Each entry is a metadata record (title, authors, DOI) compiled from open scholarly databases, with the abstract shown in full only where the paper is openly licensed (e.g. Creative Commons); otherwise a short excerpt is shown for reference under fair use. WASTE classifies each work by failure type; classifications are automated and approximate.
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Erin Penno, Carol Atmore, Brett Maclennan et al. · 2023 · BMJ Open
Objectives In Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), integration across the healthcare continuum has been a key approach to strengthening the health system and improving health outcomes. A key example has been four regional District Health Board (DHB)…
Mitchell J. Eaton, Adam J. Terando, Jaime A. Collazo · 2024 · Frontiers in Conservation Science
The challenge of selecting strategies to adapt to climate change is complicated by the presence of irreducible uncertainties regarding future conditions. Decisions regarding long-term investments in conservation actions contain significant…
Armin Pircher Verdorfer, Xuan Feng, Claudia Peus et al. · 2025 · Journal of Managerial Psychology
Purpose While the benefits of servant leadership are well established, its effectiveness during major organizational change remains unclear. Grounded in conservation of resources theory, this study examines how servant leadership functions…
Laura van Riel, Elske van den Berg, Marike Polak et al. · 2023 · BMC Psychiatry
Abstract Background Binge eating disorder (BED), as the most prevalent eating disorder, is strongly related to obesity and other somatic and psychiatric morbidity. Despite evidence-based treatments a considerable number of BED patients…
Gavin G. Cotterill, Douglas A. Keinath, Tabitha A. Graves · 2025 · Ecology and Evolution
ABSTRACT Occupancy models have become increasingly popular for species monitoring and assessment, in part, because detection/non‐detection data are readily obtained using a variety of methods. Multispecies occupancy models (MSOMs) can…
Richard H. Epstein, Franklin Dexter, Brenda G. Fahy · 2023 · Anesthesia & Analgesia
BACKGROUND: In a recent study, rapid response team implementation at 1 hospital was associated with only a 0.1% reduction in inpatient mortality from 2005 to 2018, characterized in the accompanying editorial as a “tepid” improvement. The…
Alex Moss, Andrew Clare, Stephen Thomas et al. · 2017 · Journal of European Real Estate Research
Purpose The authors in this paper aim to investigate the performance of different portfolios of REITs which specialise by property type compared to the performance of a diversified free-float market capitalisation-weighted benchmark index…
Dario Nicolì, Silvio Gualdi, Panos J Athanasiadis · 2025 · Environmental Research Letters
Abstract The Mediterranean region is highly sensitive to climate change, having experienced an intense warming and drying trend in recent decades. In the context of decision-making processes, there is growing interest in understanding the…
Anderson Betti Frare, Vagner Horz, Ana Paula Capuano da Cruz · 2024 · Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change
Purpose This study aims to analyze the effects of socialization mechanisms (belief system and peer mentoring) on managers’ job engagement and their desire to have a significant impact through work, that is, the desire to substantially…
Cuiqing Jiang, Abdullah Alqadhi, Mahmood Almesbahi · 2021 · Concurrent Engineering
Due to the massive number of products being produced every year in every industry, firms have witnessed a tremendous growth in innovation of methods to create a sustainable competitive advantage. For the past decade and with the…
Eugene Yeung, Nadia Sant, Ewa Sucha et al. · 2024 · Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada
Background: Knowledge of time to positivity (TTP) for blood cultures is useful to assess timing of discontinuation of empiric antimicrobials for suspected bacteremia with no focus. Methods: An audit of positive blood cultures from the…
Daniel D. Wiegmann, Kelly L. Weinersmith, Jeffrey R. Baylis et al. · 2024 · BMC Zoology
Abstract Background Many animals appear to preferentially renest in proximity to a site they previously occupied. Evidence of nest fidelity is often inferred from a right skewed distribution of distances between the nests of individuals…
James A. Kelhoffer · 2018 · Early Christianity
Eine sprachliche Analyse der stilistischen und theologischen Eigenheiten von 2Clem 19,1–20,5 im Vergleich zu 2Clem 1–18 macht einige Unterschiede deutlich, die für die letzten beiden Kapitel sehr wahrscheinlich auf einen späteren Autor…
Luciano Rodrigo Lopes, João Henrique Campos, Alison Felipe Alencar Chaves · 2022 · Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare
In 2002, a severe acute respiratory (SARS) epidemic, caused by a coronavirus (SARS-CoV), affected a significant number of countries and was interrupted after one year, approximately. Currently, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused…
Malik E. Juweid, Dana Alselaibi, Hiba Abandeh et al. · 2023 · Medicine
Trabecular bone score (TBS) assesses trabecular microarchitecture at the lumbar spine and was shown to improve fracture risk prediction compared to bone mineral density (BMD) alone. We investigated whether lumbar degenerative changes (DC)…
Rafael R. Maes, Geert Potters, Erik Fransen et al. · 2023 · Sustainability
Air quality currently poses a major risk for human health. Currently, diesel is widely used as fuel and is a significant source of nitrogen oxides (NOx) and particulate matter (PM), both hazardous to human health. A good alternative for…
Ferhat Karaman, Jill Lany, Jessica F. Hay · 2024 · Cognitive Science
Abstract Infants are sensitive to statistics in spoken language that aid word‐form segmentation and immediate mapping to referents. However, it is not clear whether this sensitivity influences the formation and retention of word‐referent…
Caetano Souto-Maior · 2025 · PeerJ
Reports of crises of reproducibility have abounded in the scientific and popular press, and are often attributed to questionable research practices, lack of rigor in protocols, or fraud. On the other hand, it is a known fact that—just like…
Scott D. King · 2022 · Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
Abstract While volcanic landforms attest to the numerous and varied volcanic processes on Venus, estimates of the frequency of volcanic eruptions are lacking. Constraints from volcanic resurfacing volumes can be equally satisfied by…
T. M. Esman, J. R. Espley, J. R. Gruesbeck et al. · 2023 · Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
Schumann resonances are electromagnetic resonances generally associated with lightning. If they exist on Mars, Schumann resonances are expected to resonate within the ionospheric cavity at a fundamental frequency of 7–14 Hz. We conducted a…
Stefano Mammola, Diego Fontaneto, Andrea Santangeli et al. · 2026 · Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Abstract We’ve all been there: 11.47, swamped by a long stretch of dense scientific talks at a conference. Six slides into a hyper-technical presentation, the speaker suddenly cracks a joke. The room erupts. Shoulders relax. Minds…
Sangeeta Saha, Binod Chandra Tripathy · 2022 · Journal of Uncertain Systems
The main aim of this paper is to introduce several forms of statistical convergence of difference sequences of complex uncertain variables: [Formula: see text]-statistically convergence almost surely, [Formula: see text]-statistically…
Malene Kyrkjebø Vinnes, Inger Marie Aalberg Haugen, Ola Diserud et al. · 2022 · Ecological Entomology
Abstract Linden trees ( Tilia spp . ) have for a long time been associated with bumblebee ( Bombus spp . ) mortality in Europe and North America. Several explanations have been suggested for this phenomenon. This study aimed to explore to…
Raphael Max, Matthias Uhl · 2023 · PLOS ONE
Moral luck refers to whether an actor is morally praised or blamed for an action whose outcome they could not influence. In two studies, we investigated the behavioral importance of this phenomenon in the realm of investments, which has…
Olesia Lebid, Oleksandr Veits · 2020 · Banks and Bank Systems
The paper focuses on the theoretical justification and theoretical foundations of using statistical criteria for identifying money laundering risk as a tool to prevent and counteract the legalization of bank clients’ proceeds. The…
Ralph Adolphs, Daniel Andler · 2018 · Emotion Review
Our approach to emotion emphasized three key ingredients. (a) We do not yet have a mature science of emotion, or even a consensus view—in this respect we are more hesitant than Sander, Grandjean, and Scherer (henceforth “SGS”) or Luiz…
Spartaco Gippoliti · 2016 · Mammalia
Abstract It has recently been claimed by Masseti that a wild goat survived on Montecristo Island until the first half of the 20th century and that subsequent selection procedures produced a goat that did not resemble any true wild goat. In…
Penny J. Regier, Mark J. Fealey, Stanley E. Kim et al. · 2020 · American Journal of Veterinary Research
Abstract OBJECTIVE To compare initial leak pressure (ILP) between cadaveric canine and synthetic small intestinal segments that did and did not undergo enterotomy. SAMPLE Eight 8-cm grossly normal jejunal segments from 1 canine cadaver and…
Trygve Tveiterås Mongstad, Hanne Flåten Andersen, Jan Petter Maehlen et al. · 2016 · ECS Transactions
In this paper we demonstrate production of doped silicon nanoparticles and testing of the material in Li-ion battery half cells. Incorporation of 3 at% of phosphorous in the reactants of the free-space reactor used resulted in a doping…
Chelsea Connair Clifford, Emily R. Waring, Carl H. Pederson et al. · 2023 · Journal of the ASABE
Highlights Corn yields increased from 1989 to 2021 in Iowa experimental plots at nitrogen fertilizer rates consistently just above current recommendations. Increased corn yields did not result in a decrease in drainage nitrate exports.…