Replication—an important, uncommon, and misunderstood practice—is gaining
appreciation in psychology. Achieving replicability is important for making research …

The COVID‐19 pandemic points to the need for scientists to pool their efforts in order to
understand this disease and respond to the ensuing crisis. Other global challenges also …

Incentives for priority of discovery are hypothesized to harm scientific reliability. Here, we
evaluate this hypothesis by developing an evolutionary agent-based model of a competitive …

This paper investigates how competition to publish first and thereby establish priority
impacts the quality of scientific research. We begin by developing a model where scientists …

Academic journals provide a key quality-control mechanism in science. Yet, information
asymmetries and conflicts of interests incentivize scientists to deceive journals about the …

Conceptual advances and validation are critical to research, yet at odds. Using a game
theoretical perspective, we show that a mixed strategy combining advances and validation …

This study elaborates a text-based metric to quantify the unique position of stylized scientific
research, characterized by its innovative integration of diverse knowledge components and …

This Element will overview research using models to understand scientific practice. Models
are useful for reasoning about groups and processes that are complicated and distributed …

Abstract The Liberal Theory of Science, best articulated by Michael Polanyi, held that
science advanced when autonomous scientists followed their best hunches and …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of scientific
endeavors. The goal of this systematic review is to evaluate the quality of the research on …