Negative / Null Result Report2012
Spring snow cover extent reductions in the 2008–2012 period exceeding climate model projections
Geophysical Research Letters
Failure-mode index
Negative results in Earth and Planetary Sciences
35 indexed negative results, null findings, and replication failures in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Each entry is a real published study whose primary finding was negative — learn what already failed before you repeat it.
Most-cited failures in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Negative / Null Result Report2012
Long‐term ozone trends at rural ozone monitoring sites across the United States, 1990–2010
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
Negative / Null Result Report2017
Comparative performance of the BGISEQ-500 vs Illumina HiSeq2500 sequencing platforms for palaeogenomic sequencing
GigaScience
Negative / Null Result Report2012
Meteorological Causes of the Secular Variations in Observed Extreme Precipitation Events for the Conterminous United States
Journal of Hydrometeorology
Negative / Null Result Report2018
BAYSPLINE: A New Calibration for the Alkenone Paleothermometer
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
Negative / Null Result Report2010
Quantifying Environmental Control on Tropical Cyclone Intensity Change
Monthly Weather Review
Negative / Null Result Report2013
Evaluation of dust and trace metal estimates from the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model version 5.0
Geoscientific model development
Negative / Null Result Report2010
Observed suppression of ozone formation at extremely high temperatures due to chemical and biophysical feedbacks
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Negative / Null Result Report2019
Evaluation of 23 gridded precipitation datasets across West Africa
Journal of Hydrology
Negative / Null Result Report2016
Multi-species collapses at the warm edge of a warming sea
Scientific Reports
Negative / Null Result Report2011
A New Global Palaeobiogeographical Model for the Late Mesozoic and Early Tertiary
Systematic Biology
Negative / Null Result Report2013
The effect of kerogen on the elastic anisotropy of organic-rich shales
Geophysics
Negative / Null Result Report2013
A palaeo Tibet–Myanmar connection? Reconstructing the Late Eocene drainage system of central Myanmar using a multi-proxy approach
Journal of the Geological Society
Negative / Null Result Report2017
The floatingSargassum(Phaeophyceae) of the South Atlantic Ocean – likely scenarios
Phycologia
Replication Failure2017
Tree‐ring analysis and modeling approaches yield contrary response of circumboreal forest productivity to climate change
Global Change Biology
Negative / Null Result Report2018
Recent Sea Ice Decline Did Not Significantly Increase the Total Liquid Freshwater Content of the Arctic Ocean
Journal of Climate
Negative / Null Result Report2019
Geospatial Distributions of Groundwater Quality in Gedaref State Using Geographic Information System (GIS) and Drinking Water Quality Index (DWQI)
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Failed Experiment Report2020
Crystal Size Distribution (CSD) Analysis of Volcanic Samples: Advances and Challenges
Frontiers in Earth Science
Negative / Null Result Report2014
Globigerinoides ruber morphotypes in the Gulf of Mexico: A test of null hypothesis
Scientific Reports
Negative / Null Result Report2012
Chloroplast symbiosis in a marine ciliate: ecophysiology and the risks and rewards of hosting foreign organelles
Frontiers in Microbiology
Negative / Null Result Report2017
Amundsen and Bellingshausen Seas simulation with optimized ocean, sea ice, and thermodynamic ice shelf model parameters
Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
Negative / Null Result Report2017
Global biogeography of Albian ammonoids: A network-based approach
Geology
Negative / Null Result Report2017
Assimilation of pseudo-tree-ring-width observations into an atmospheric general circulation model
Climate of the past
Negative / Null Result Report2021
Melt addition to mid-ocean ridge peridotites increases spinel Cr# with no significant effect on recorded oxygen fugacity
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Negative / Null Result Report2019
Contrasting Air Mass Advection Explains Significant Differences in Boundary Layer Depth Seasonal Cycles Under Onshore Versus Offshore Flows
Geophysical Research Letters
Negative / Null Result Report2012
No statistically significant effect of a short-term decrease in the nucleation rate on atmospheric aerosols
Atmospheric chemistry and physics
Negative / Null Result Report2026
Machine learning modelling of a nonlinear environmental index with sensitivity analysis for groundwater assessment
Scientific Reports
Negative / Null Result Report2021
Brief Episodes of Nocturnal Hypoxia and Acidification Reduce Survival of Economically Important Blue Crab (Callinectes sapidus) Larvae
Frontiers in Marine Science
Negative / Null Result Report2025
Revising the Giant Planet Mass–Metallicity Relation: Deciphering the Formation Sequence of Giant Planets
The Astrophysical Journal
Negative / Null Result Report2025
Evolutionary assembly of crown reptile anatomy clarified by late Paleozoic relatives of Neodiapsida
Peer Community Journal
Negative / Null Result Report2012
Tornadic Supercell Environments Analyzed Using Surface and Reanalysis Data: A Spatiotemporal Relational Data-Mining Approach
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
Negative / Null Result Report2023
Investigating the quadrupedal abilities of Scutellosaurus lawleri and its implications for locomotor behavior evolution among dinosaurs
The Anatomical Record
Negative / Null Result Report2021
Dissipative models of swell propagation across the Pacific
Studies in Applied Mathematics
Negative / Null Result Report2024
A D-vine copula-based quantile regression towards merging satellite precipitation products over rugged topography: a case study in the upper Tekeze–Atbara Basin
Hydrology and earth system sciences
Negative / Null Result Report2025
Comparison of water models for structure prediction
Journal of Molecular Liquids