Brown, R J C (2022) Headline of the fifty-year newspaper: ‘Metrology, a multilateral endeavour, facilitates reproducibility in science’. Measurements, 203. 112004

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Abstract

Breakthroughs in science often hit the headlines. This is understandable but, unless these breakthroughs are underpinned by reproducible science, these news stories will disappear as quickly as they arose. Perhaps we should focus instead on the importance of the underpinning capability which enables us to distinguish the scientific step changes from the results that cannot be reproduced: measurement comparability. The work to ensure measurement comparability is continuous, necessarily multilateral, but gradual, which is why it rarely makes the headlines. However, if we alter the timescale on which we view events it becomes easy to see that in the longer term it is measurement comparability, overseen by metrology – the science of measurement – that facilitates progress in science and therefore in society.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Analytical Science > Trace Analysis and Electrochemistry
Divisions:	Research
Identification number/DOI:	10.1016/j.measurement.2022.112004
Last Modified:	26 Jun 2023 14:51
URI:	https://eprintspublications.npl.co.uk/id/eprint/9766