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Responsible assessment of what research? Beware of epistemic diversity!

Schönbrodt et al. (2022) and Gärtner et al. (2022) aim to outline in the target articles why and how research assessment could be improved in psychological science in accordance with DORA, resulting in a focus on abandoning the impact factor as an …

Scholarly Publishing as a Global Endeavor: Leveraging Open Source Software for Bibliodiversity

Each year, the Public Knowledge Project* (PKP) posts a very large, and rather dry, dataset at the Harvard Dataverse Project. This open data provides a summary of the known installations of PKP’s open source publishing software around the world (OJS …

Science for Progress Initiative

The Science for Progress Initiative (SfPI) is designed to catalyze scientific research on the scientific process. SfPI's purpose is to produce rigorous, quantitative evidence from randomized evaluations on the most effective approaches to funding and …

Scientific reform, citation politics and the bureaucracy of oblivion

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Simple heuristics to run a research group

Collaboration between researchers has become increasingly common, enabling a level of discovery and innovation that is difficult if not impossible to achieve by a single person. But how can one establish and maintain an environment that fosters …

Statements on Open Science for Sustainable Development Goals

This article attempts to practicalise Open Science (OS) to promote ideas and enhance efforts for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It delineates General Statements (n = 20) as guiding beacons and the Specific Statements (n = 70) that act as …

The Value of Openness in Open Science

Open science is good for both epistemic and social reasons, but in nonobvious ways, it can have detrimental epistemic side effects. Drawing on case studies and the social epistemology of science, I show how practices intended to increase …

The Values, and Practice, of Science

Science is humanity’s most important long-term investment. It is worth constant effort to improve science as a social system to accelerate discovery of knowledge, solutions, and treatments.

Top tips for navigating your career: The Hidden Curriculum

We summarize our career advice on everything from writing effectively and giving a stellar presentation to writing a CV and negotiating a job offer.

Type I Error Rates are Not Usually Inflated

The inflation of Type I error rates is thought to be one of the causes of the replication crisis. Questionable research practices such as p-hacking are thought to inflate Type I error rates above their nominal level, leading to unexpectedly high …
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