In the current system of pre-publication peer review, which papers are scrutinized most thoroughly? In this blog post, I argue…
TL;DR: Anne wrote a blog post for the first time in over 2 years. The situation must be quite serious…
Dear Dr The 100% CI: Thank you for submitting “2019” [CAL-2019-12] to Advances in Calendar. I was very fortunate to…
Today we are hosting a guest blog by Pieter and Tom, who tell us about their round-shaped and spiky experiences working…
Let’s hypothesize that eating ice cream cured depression, and that this effect was mediated by the sensory pleasure derived from…
Update 2022: There is now a manuscript that discusses the topic of this blog post in more depth, see preprint…
Earlier this year, I went through an academic existential crisis in which I questioned whether the field of research I’m…
Accounting for mistakes in my scientific work and announcing a bug bounty program. A story of few papers and many…
Next, we tested whether studies with bigger sample sizes are cited more. More and more, it’s looking as if citations…
I looked at citations as an indicator of research quality by dusting off two analyses that I did quickly a…