Research and Development (R&D) is at the heart of the pharmaceutical industry with tens of billions of dollars being spent each in an attempt to discover and validate new treatments for diseases and conditions. Despite enormous sums of money being spent on drug discovery each year, most drugs will fail clinical trials. In fact, Eroom’s law shows drug development is becoming more costly and slower over time. What can be done to improve R&D so that we can find treatments more efficiently? This is a complex question and there is no one solution.
We built scite to help with this problem. Specifically, to help promote and identify reliable research by allowing researchers to easily check how a scientific paper has been cited in the literature and if it has been supported or disputed by subsequent research. Indeed, as studies from Amgen and Bayer show, most biomedical research from the literature can’t be reproduced or validated.