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Founded in 1880, the journal Science nowadays continues to publish the very best in research across the sciences. It is _________ an extra round of statistical (数据的) checks to its peer-review process, editor-in-chief Marcia McNutt announced today. The policy follows similar efforts from other journals, after widespread concern that basic mistakes in data analysis are _________ the irre-producibility (不可复制) of many published research findings.

“Readers must have _________ in the conclusions published in our journal,” writes McNutt in an editorial. Working with the American Statistical Association, the journal has _________ seven experts to a statistics board of reviewing editors (SBoRE). Manuscripts will be flagged up for additional scrutiny (审查) by the journal’s internal editors, or by its existing Board of Reviewing Editors or by _________ peer reviews. The SBoRE panel will then find external statisticians to _________ these manuscripts.

Asked whether any particular papers had _________ the change, McNutt said: “The creation of the ‘statistics board’ was motivated by concerns _________ with the application statistics and data analysis in scientific research. And it is part of Science’s overall _________ to increase re-producibility in the research we publish.”

Giovanni Parmigiani, a bio-statistician at the Harvard School of Public Health, a member of the SBoRE group, says he __________ the board to “play primarily a consultive role”. He agreed to join because he “found the foresight behind the establishment of the SBoRE to be __________, unique and likely to have a lasting impact. This impact will not only be through the publications in Science itself, but hopefully through a larger group of publishing places that may want to __________ their approach after Science.

Professional scientists are expected to know how to analyze data. __________, statistical errors are alarmingly common in published research, according to David Vaux, a cell biologist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Parkvilie, Australia. Researchers should improve their standards, he wrote in Nature in 2012, but journals should also take a(n) __________ line. Vaux says that Science’s idea to pass some papers to statisticians “has some merit, but a weakness is that it relies on the board of reviewing editors to __________ the papers that need scrutiny in the first place.”