Lex Bouter

Simine Vazire Awarded 2025 Einstein Foundation Individual Award The editor-in-chief of Psychological Science is recognized for promoting quality in research.

Congratulations to @simine.com, editor-in-chief of Psychological Science and professor at @unimelb.bsky.social, for receiving the @einsteinberlin.bsky.social’s Individual Award for promoting quality in research. #AcademicSky #Psychology

A ten-year drive to credit authors for their work — and why there’s still more to do Information about the roles of each author of a paper can help to build trust, integrity and responsible research assessment. Coordinated efforts are needed to consolidate progress.

A ten-year drive to credit authors for their work — and why there’s still more to do www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A ten-year drive to credit authors for their work — and why there’s still more to do Information about the roles of each author of a paper can help to build trust, integrity and responsible research assessment. Coordinated efforts are needed to consolidate progress.

By 2024, #CRediT information was included in nearly 850K pubs (incl preprints, conference papers) — around 22% of the 3.7M pubs for which full text was available that were recorded last year in Digital Science’s Dimensions, a database of scholarly publications.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A ten-year drive to credit authors for their work — and why there’s still more to do Information about the roles of each author of a paper can help to build trust, integrity and responsible research assessment. Coordinated efforts are needed to consolidate progress.

10 years since CRediT was introduced, >20% adoption (of full text in Dimensions). Now, we need to build on this to comprehensively integrate CRediT in metadata and make sure the taxonomy evolves to remain fit for purpose. doi.org/10.1038/d415...
W/ @sjcporter.bsky.social Liz Allen Ruth Whitman

This paper provides guidance and tools for conducting open and reproducible systematic reviews in psychology. It emphasizes the importance of systematic reviews for evidence-based decision-making and the growing adoption of open science practices. Open science enhances transparency, reproducibility, and minimizes bias in systematic reviews by sharing data, materials, and code. It also fosters collaborations and enables involvement of non-academic stakeholders. The paper is designed for beginners, offering accessible guidance to navigate the many standards and resources that may not obviously align with specific areas of psychology. It covers systematic review conduct standards, pre-registration, registered reports, reporting standards, and open data, materials and code. The paper is concluded with a glimpse of recent innovations like Community Augmented Meta-Analysis and independent reproducibility checks.

There is no reason why systematic reviews can't be open. The data used for synthesis is *already* open and there are many excellent open source tools that can facilitate the easy sharing of analysis scripts.

Here's a nice guide for performing open systematic reviews doi.org/10.1525/coll...

Congratulations to the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative -- a remarkable effort by a remarkable team. This is a wonderful acknowledgement of an incredible contribution to assessing and improving research quality.

My amazing friend and MetaMelb co-director @simine.com has won the 2025 Einstein Foundation Award! @unimelb.bsky.social @psychunimelb.bsky.social and @replicats.bsky.social are so lucky to have you

🏆 Institutional: The Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative is a nationwide effort to evaluate research results in laboratory biology & the largest coordinated replication effort in the field worldwide, showcasing the potential of country-level research improvements. @redebrrepro.bsky.social (3/5)

We summarized the Drain paper in an LSE Impact blog post this week. Please share in your networks, ideally with those we are calling to action: research funders and university leadership
blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #ScholComm

Registration of research on research integrity is still not common: Findings from the Hong Kong, Cape Town, and Athens editions of the World Conference on Research Integrity This article reports on the prevalence of registration of empirical studies presented at three editions of the World Conference on Research Integrity at the time of abstract submission.During regis...

📝 Latest Article Alert! 📝

"Registration of research on research integrity is still not common: Findings from the Hong Kong, Cape Town, and Athens editions of the World Conference on Research Integrity"

Wilco H. M. Emons, Klaas Sijtsma & @lexbouter.bsky.social

→ doi.org/10.1080/0898...

Substantial room for improvement in Open Methods of research on research integrity: ....'the prevalence of registration among presenters of empirical research did not increase across the three WCRIs, and was on average 28%.'
bit.ly/47YJrfI

Introduction to INSPECT-SR Training Workshop December An introductory 2-hour online workshop will introduce participants to the INSPECT-SR tool for assessing trustworthiness of randomised controlled...

Have increased capacity for this December INSPECT-SR online training workshop following a successful 1st event today. Book here: www.trybooking.com/uk/FKHV

Excited for this! 🎉

Join the WCRI Early Career Researchers & Professionals Network for the year-end webinar “Let’s Talk About Mentorship!” on 13 Nov 2025 | 10:30–12:00 UTC.

Let’s share, learn, and build a stronger mentoring culture together.

@lexbouter.bsky.social

Register below!

40 Percent of Stroke Animal Studies May Have Problematic Images Red flags during a literature review led to the discovery of over 200 papers on animal models of stroke with duplicated images, which is likely an underestimate.

40 Percent of Stroke Animal Studies May Have Problematic Images

Nijmeegse wetenschappers ontdekken honderden mogelijk frauduleuze publicaties over hersenbloedingen bij dieren - Vox magazine 40 procent van de dierexperimentele studies naar hersenbloedingen bevat afbeeldingen die niet kloppen, ontdekten onderzoekers van het Radboudumc. Een deel van deze publicaties is mogelijk geheel of de...

40% dierstudies naar hersenbloedingen bevat afbeeldingen die niet kloppen, ontdekten René Aquarius en Kim Wever @radboudumc.bsky.social. Sommige artikelen zijn mogelijk geheel of deels verzonnen. Zorgwekkend, zegt ook @elisabethbik.bsky.social.
Voor @voxweb.bsky.social.
www.voxweb.nl/nieuws/honde...

"We included 608 articles, of which 243 articles were identified as problematic (40.0%)." (bit.ly/3X4PtGF) This finding of so many image-related problems by a team that wanted to do a systemic review, is deeply concerning.

Widespread image reuse, manipulation uncovered in animal studies of brain injury One of the papers in the analysis contained a figure (bottom) found to have overlap with other work by the same author (top). Both papers have been retracted. Annotated images: PubPeer More than 20…

The problems were so pervasive they abandoned their review and instead began investigating how widespread image duplication was in their field.

Widespread image reuse, manipulation uncovered in animal studies of brain injury

📗 The new issue of REACH Magazine is almost here!

🔍 Featuring insights on the future of peer review, updated guidance on research misconduct oversight, science sleuthing with Lonni Besançon, WCRI history, and more.

👀 Stay tuned!
#REACHmagazine #SIA #ResearchIntegrity

Our new paper is out in PLOS Biology! I'm very conflicted about the project: proud because it feels like the most important project I've ever been a part of, but also very sad that we found so many problems in our field.

Read the paper here: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Number of included articles per publication year (from <1990 to 2024). Green, dashed bar segments represent non-problematic articles. Orange bar segments represent problematic articles.

Erroneous articles can undermine scientific progress & mislead research. @deadneanderthals.bsky.social &co show that 40% of articles on #BrainInjury in animal studies have #ImageDuplication & #ImageManipulation problems, but correction by #journals remains limited @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4p59QzN

Bij @vrtnws.be mocht ik bijna een half uur vertellen over Sloppy Science: van selectief shoppen uit meetresultaten tot regelrechte datafabricage, al dan niet uit platte honger naar geld en roem. Hier te luisteren als podcast: www.vrt.be/vrtmax/podca...

Full report: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

A person holding a publication titled "A Practical Guide to Implementing Responsible Research Assessment at Research Performing Organizations" by DORA, in front of a bookshelf.

The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) has released “A Practical Guide to Implementing Responsible Research Assessment at Research Performing Organizations”, designed to help research performing organizations.
ℹ️ Learn more at https://bit.ly/4gSzFA6

@dorassessment.bsky.social

⏰ 3 days left!

Both abstract submissions and travel grant applications for the 9th #WCRI2026 close on October 15, 2025!

📍 May 3–6, 2026 | Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦

Share your work and join global conversations.

🔗 wcri2026.org/call-for-abs...

#ResearchIntegrity

Photo of my right hand holding a book. It has a white cover with black letters: Stan van Pelt Sloppy Science Alles over wetenschapsfraude: van foutjes to nepcongressen And it features a blue abstract smear on the front

I will be bringing my copy of @stanvanpelt.bsky.social's new book Sloppy Science (in Dutch) to read in the train.

I hope he can sign it for me!

www.lebowskipublishers.nl/boek/3331/st...

Symptomen van een dolgedraaid systeem ‘Nu kom je daar met een groot ego nog altijd makkelijker bovendrijven dan met grondigheid en bescheidenheid.’ Stan van Pelt over slechte wetenschap

'Nu kom je daar met een groot ego nog altijd makkelijker bovendrijven dan met grondigheid en bescheidenheid.' Over slechte wetenschap.

neerlandistiek.nl/2025/10/symp...

I’m honored to be named one of Tagesspiegel’s “100 Researchers of Berlin” for 2025, featured in today’s category “Swimming against the current.” Grateful to be recognized alongside inspiring researchers who challenge convention and push boundaries

New post on ResToRes's website: "The Lancet–WCRIF commission on research integrity"
A new Lancet–WCRIF Commission on Research Integrity takes aim at the growing crisis of fake science and questionable research practices, calling for coordinated global action.
restores.univ-rennes.fr/highlights/l...

Fraude in onderzoek: van verzonnen echo’s tot een alzheimermedicijn dat niet werkt Van verzonnen baarmoederlittekens tot onzinstudies over alzheimermedicatie. Gesjoemel met wetenschappelijk onderzoek is aan de orde van de dag, zegt Stan van Pelt, journalist en ex-wetenschapper van d...

Wetenschapsfraude lijkt op doping, vertelde ik in @degelderlander.bsky.social. Topsporters weten ook dat het slecht voor je is en het je je carrière kan kosten: maar ze willen de beste zijn; in de wetenschap vergroot succes bovendien de kans op subsidies. www.gelderlander.nl/nijmegen/fra...

All academics should be scientific sleuths, says scholar Exposing academic fraud should be part and parcel of an academic’s job, not an after-hours hobby, and universities should give staff support to stre...

All academics should be scientific sleuths, says scholar

#Sleuths #ScientificSleuths #ResearchIntegrity #WCRI2026 #WCRI

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