**Robust finding**
There are many [different ways](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/robust) of using the word robust.
Within the context of studying scientific practices, the existence or properties of a phenomenon are considered robust if the relevant finding persists under a wide range of conditions and can be established as a stable regularity by the triangulation of results from multiple means of determination (Goodman 2016; Soler 2012). Note that, at the level of research claim, there is often overlap in the way that the notions of robustness and [generalisability](https://osf.io/b79rc/) are each used.
**References**
- Goodman, Steven N., Daniele Fanelli, and John P. A. Ioannidis. 2016. ‘What Does Research Reproducibility Mean?’ Science Translational Medicine 8 (341): 341ps12-341ps12. https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.aaf5027.
- Soler, Léna. 2012. ‘Introduction: The Solidity of Scientific Achievements: Structure of the Problem, Difficulties, Philosophical Implications’. In Characterizing the Robustness of Science After the Practice Turn in Philosophy of Science, edited by Léna Soler, Emiliano Trizio, Thomas Nickles, and William Wimsatt, 1–60. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 292. Netherlands: Springer.