Results

You should only publish experimental results that are absolutely reproducible. You should ensure that your results are reproducible by performing each experiment several times, with several replicates within each experiment, if possible. Your paper serves not only to communicate your findings to others but also to allow others to repeat your experiments and build on them. Thus, if you yourself cannot obtain reproducible results, it is unlikely that anybody else will be able to do so and, for that reason, your results are not worth publishing. The validity of your results also depends on the size of your sample: the larger the sample, the greater the value of your results. If your results are not reproducible, do not despair. There is a place for them too, namely, the Journal of Irreproducible Results, which is happy to publish “news of particularly egregious scientific results.” If your findings fall into this category, you can submit them to the journal via the its website at https://www.jir.com/home.html.