Join us on November 18 - 9 am PT | 12 pm ET | 6 pm CET, for 8th Reproducibility Rounds: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡?. Registration at: stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Video recordings of our webinars “Peer Review and its Diversification” are now available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... We would like to thank our speakers: Annie Whamond @anniewham.bsky.social Rachel Heyard Marcus Munafò Richard J. Acton Mario Malički @mariomalicki.bsky.social

Cambridge University Press conducted a survey on 2.8k researchers - 𝟓𝟎% 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐨𝐫 𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦. www-cambridge-org.stanford.idm.oclc.org/us/universit...

Silverchair released a report on the Future of Peer Review - www.silverchair.com/news/tech-tr... indicating that reviewers are largely in favor and looking forward to transparent peer review. However data on survey methods, invites and response rate is lacking.

NEW POST: NIH explores capping APCs: Let’s look at the evidence! We used data of NIH funded from 2025, and found that APCs for a few as 7% journals (or 6% of papers) would be fully covered by a $2K cap, 25% of journals (or 21% of papers) by a $3K cap. Read more! www.scholcommlab.ca/2025/09/03/n...

In a non-randomized comparison of published (open) vs unpublished #PeerReview from 233 @ElsevierNews @SpringerNature journals 2016-2021, open reviews were longer (median 22 vs 17 sentences) & had higher information scores (0.52 vs 0.46) @mariomalicki.bsky.social @squazzoni.bsky.social #OpenScience

Join us for the 7th Reproducibility Rounds: 𝐍𝐨𝐧-𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥-𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡: 𝐀 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲, on September 16 at 9 am PT | 12 pm ET | 6 pm CET, by Nichole E Carlson. Registration at stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Register for the 3rd Stanford Colloquium on Biomedical Research Rigor and Reproducibility - October 20th 2025. Speakers: Nicole Kleinstreuer (NIH), Marcus Munafò, Geeta Swamy, etc... Agenda and registration at web.cvent.com/event/02bac8...

This year's peer review week is happening September 15 to 19, and the theme is “Rethinking Peer Review in the AI Era” @PeerRevWeek. Follow the updates and list of events on peerreviewweek.net/events.php

New research - Differences Between Nursing Studies Posted as Preprints on medRxiv or SSRN and Published in Peer-Reviewed Journals. Similarly to previous research, we find that only 4% (2 out of 51) had changes in their primary conclusions. doi.org/10.1111/inr....

@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 Please share widely!

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...

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....

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...

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...