Short descriptions of the project can also be found in Science, the New York Times and Phys.org.
Science: www.science.org/content/arti...
NYT: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/s...
PHYS: phys.org/news/2026-03...
My role in this was small. I was one of the reanalysts who independently reanalysed the original data. But that's how projects of this scale work. They only become possible because many people each do their part.
The specific analytical path matters a lot, even when the overall finding survives. The common single-path approach in social and behavioural research should not simply be assumed to be robust to alternative analyses.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Roughly half of the studies reproduced. In our robustness study, we looked at 100 studies between 2009 and 2018. Each was reanalysed independently by five different analysts. Only 34% of those reanalyses arrived at the same result as the original. But 74% still reached the same broad conclusion.
A new effort on reproducibility just published in Nature. I'm proud to be one of 400+ co-authors who contributed.
www.nature.com/collections/...
A large group of researchers set out to replicate, test for robustness, and assess reproducibility of findings across the social and behavioural sci.
"the government has been pursuing a plan to develop 400 world-class scientific journals as affordable alternatives to ones based in Western countries; by 2023 the country had about 178 English-language open-access journals, nearly half of which charged no APC" www.science.org/content/arti...
For a change, something we made ourselves: Together with my colleagues Tobias Roth, Andreas Horr, and @nataliebackes.bsky.social, we examined ethnic rent penalties. Do migrants pay higher rents for comparable housing than natives with similar characteristics? direct.mit.edu/euso/article...
Last year, the KB presented the initial OPENBIB data release, which contains selected and curated metadata from OpenAlex. See this new blog post tinyurl.com/58zmb79z for an updated data release based on the OAL snapshot from July 25. This data release also features a KB author disambiguation system.
US policymakers & scientists show significantly lower support for proposals with China-based vs. Germany-based collaborators (US policymakers: 68% support for Germany-collaboration vs. 28% for identical China-collaboration proposals, US scientists: 48% vs. 30%) www.nber.org/papers/w34789
This is a new preprint on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on international researcher mobility.
The analysis estimates approximately 14,700 fewer international researcher movements between 2020 and 2022 than expected, corresponding to a global loss of about 3.7%.
osf.io/preprints/so...
If someone paid you $4.75 every night you slept 7+ hours, would you sleep more?
And--more importantly--would that increase in sleep change your behavior in other meaningful ways?
This new paper ran an experiment to find out.
"This paper introduces a document type classifier with the purpose to optimise the distinction between research and non-research journal publications in OpenAlex" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
We're looking for a post-doc to join our international, multidisciplinary project looking at how evaluation systems influence researchers' questionable practices. A great chance to get involved with a collaborative team doing exciting work on research integrity. Get in touch if you're interested!
"...adoption of AI in science presents what seems to be a paradox: an expansion of individual scientists’ impact but a contraction in collective science’s reach, as AI-augmented work moves collectively towards areas richest in data" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This looks like a great opportunity!
The University of Vienna invites applications for at least 40 fully funded, 4-year doctoral positions in the social sciences, humanities and cultural studies.
careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...
Explainers & tutorials are a great way to criticize current practices with a positive twist. Tailoring them to a specific substantive (!) subfield can greatly increase uptake. Forget about novelty; if some statistican said sth in the 70s but no one was around to hear it, say it again.>
Health professional mobility debates still focus on numbers. Who leaves. Who returns. How to offset shortages. This paper shows something else: international education reshapes how health professionals judge responsibility and act within constrained systems.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Scientific excellence is clustering in a few ‘superstar’ cities. New York, Boston, London and San Francisco now host 12% of the world's top scientists. The Global South remains largely absent, with the notable exception of Beijing's dramatic rise rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Line chart of Google search interest for “Christmas gift wife” and “Christmas gift husband” from November 18 to December 24. Bold lines show the average pattern across 2020–2024, while lighter shaded lines represent individual years. Shaded areas highlight which term has higher search interest at each point in time. The chart shows that searches for gifts for wives peak later in December than searches for gifts for husbands.
🎄 Hope you’ve got all your presents ready 💝
Google search interest shows a stable pattern:
🎅 “Christmas gift wife” peaks just before Christmas Eve
🎅 “Christmas gift husband” peaks much earlier
#MerryChristmas to all of you! 🎁
📈 Google Trends (Nov 18–Dec 24, 2020–2024)
#dataviz #ggplot2
The Robust Bayesian Meta-Analysis package got updated with additional vignettes explaining how to perform Bayesian model-averaged publication bias-adjusted
- multilevel meta-analysis (cran.r-project.org/web/packages...)
- multilevel meta-regression (cran.r-project.org/web/packages...)
Delighted to share this very important article with sobering results relevant for all migration researchers worldwide.
Lead by @carrasco-jig.bsky.social, together with @mariegodin.bsky.social, @cvar-sil.bsky.social and yours truly.
Open Access here:
doi.org/10.1057/s415...
Only 40 % of the publications identified as top 3 in self-evaluations also rank among the top 3 by citation performance (based on a survey of 2,331 researchers).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
China's unilateral visa-free policies have significantly increased the number of co-authored publications between China and other countries. This effect is achieved by enhancing transportation accessibility and mobility, which facilitates cross-border research collaboration arxiv.org/pdf/2512.12189
There seems to be a decrease in the coverage of affiliation metadata in #OpenAlex, particularly with regard to journal articles published by Elsevier since 2024. Only around 6% of Elsevier articles published in 2025 have affiliation metadata.
subugoe.github.io/scholcomm_an...
Character overlap between Nalimov's Naukometriya book chapters and Mulchenko’s Ph.D. dissertation chapters
This article revisits the early history of Soviet scientometrics, examining the role of Zinaida Mulchenko in writing Naukometriya... Mulchenko’s diminished positionality as the co-author of the book can be understood through the lens of the Matilda Effect direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Very glad to see this collaborative work w/ Robin Haunschild and @lutzb.bsky.social published in Journal of Informetrics
"A study of gender and regional differences in scientific mobility and immobility among researchers identified as potentially talented"
Open Access here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.jo...
Studying social sciences & humanities makes students more left-leaning, controlling for initial views & major preference, driven by cultural views. Implies that if all students majored in business, college–noncollege ideological gap would shrink by 1/3
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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🚨 New paper out in PLOS ONE! w/ @caropradier.bsky.social @benzpierre.bsky.social @natsush.bsky.social @ipoga.bsky.social @lariviev.bsky.social
We studied 43k authors and 264k citation links in U.S. economics to ask:
👉 Why do some papers cite others?
🔗 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
