Mario Malički

@bmehmani.bsky.social and mine work (and interview) is featured in the Nature's News on Peer Review - nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02457-2. Reminder that for 2,857 Elsevier journals, Md 7 reviewers are invited, 2 accept, within Md 9 days of being invited - see: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Update - Elsevier's Peer Review Workbench with peer review reports of 18,092,870 manuscripts from 2,857 journals, Md 2 reviewers (Md invited 7, 9 days for accepting invite), absolute agreement in round 1 - 26% across disciplines, Md 22% acceptance rate. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

SN releases a white paper on RI - survey on 7,871 researchers, showing 21% of USA respondents saying their institutions do not provide research integrity training, and 22% not being aware if it does. figshare.com/articles/onl...

Peer Review Week will be held from 15 to 19 September 2025. Cast your vote till May 31st on which of the below should be this year's theme. forms.gle/RJSWd78aK8xq...

Join us next Tuesday 9AM PT for an online webinar: Estimating Replicability of Lab Biology Research at a National Level: Results and Lessons from the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative - stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

JOIN US! Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity on Preprints and Open Peer Review. Multi-year project. Come with work @nataschachtena.bsky.social, @mariomalicki.bsky.social, me, and the rest of #ScholCommLab. Apply by May 23rd!

bit.ly/SCLpostdoc2025

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Join us on May 20, 9 am (PT) for the 6th Reproducibility Rounds - 𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐚𝐛 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐋𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥: 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞. Registration at: stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

New preprint - we analyzed 1,091 trials affiliated with 6 California Universities, with primary completion dates 2014-2017 (almost all before legal mandates) - 46% had summary results reported in ClinicalTrials.gov, 72% had results in journals. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Co-authorship network based on 194 works published by lab members 2017-2025. Node size reflects number of works, edges represents collaboration strength. Node color signals (former) lab membership.

Bibliographic coupling network of 194 works published by lab members 2017-2025. Node size reflects number of citations, edges represents bibliographic strength. Node color signals cluster affiliation.

Presented at @humboldtuni.bsky.social IBI Research Seminar today to introduce the #ScholCommLab and of course I used some bibliometric networks to demonstrate our collaborations and knowledge base..

Next Tuesday - March 18, free webinar at 9 am (PT): 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐄𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐚 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 (𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐃𝐈): 𝐒𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬, Registration at: stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi....

Rounds Poster

Join us on March 18, 9 am (PT) for the 5th Reproducibility Rounds - 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐄𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐚 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 (𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐃𝐈): 𝐒𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬, Registration at: stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Postdoctoral positions in the social sciences and humanities (with particular emphasis on philosophy, sociology of science, and 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞) for US and Canada - implications of AI for the science apply.sloan.org/prog/call_fo...

Join us Next Tuesday, 9 am PT time, for 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 webinar, with speakers from Reproducibility for Everyone, Community for Rigor, and Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training - stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

METRICS Stanford is accepting applications for its 2025-2026 postdoctoral fellowship in meta-research: metrics.stanford.edu/postdoctoral.... The deadline for applications is March 15, 2025, the position is expected to start at October 1, 2025.

Join us on February 18, 9 am (PT) for the 4th 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬 - 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬, with speakers from R4E, C4R, and FORTT. Registration at: stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Next Tuesday January 21, 9 am (PT) free Webinar 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬: Replicating 193 Preclinical Cancer Biology Experiments: Lessons, Surprises, and Future Directions. Registration at: t.co/nqbTfOvVnz

Join us on January 21, 9 am (PT) for the 3rd 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬: Replicating 193 Preclinical Cancer Biology Experiments: Lessons, Surprises, and Future Directions. Registration at: stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

PaperMills How to address paper mills Paper mills are organised processes of providing authorship and manuscript publication for sale to researchers. They are a growing concern within the scholarly publishing c...

EASE Peer Review Committee invites comments and suggestions on our Toolkit - 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 docs.google.com/document/d/1.... Responses may be submitted anonymously till 15 January 2025 using the feedback form - forms.gle/SDddcvRFQajo...

To promote the implementation of the structured peer review - we present our list of questions as a checklist in the new issue of ESE - ese.arphahub.com/article/1376...