Sarahanne's a metascientist who conducts research on the science reform/open science movement, debates and controversies in the community, and the practices they engage in. She's not only interested in what goes wrong with science, but in how and why it has gone wrong.
NewsBy Marcel Hobma & Sarahanne Field
We will welcome submissions for registered reports (RRs)! We see moves to publishing RRs as part of a broader, cultural move in academia towards more rigorous and transparent research.
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OpinionBy Sarahanne Field & Sean Devine
We should beware of using Ariely and others as scapegoats. Rather than dwelling on the moral failings of individual researchers, we might reframe fraud and misconduct as a systemic problem.
ReadSarahanne Field, Stefan D.M. Gaillard, David Joachim Grüning & Alex Job Visser
In most industries, error is a problem. Take, for instance, the aviation industry. An error in the calculation of a plane’s gross weight could be catastrophic, as how much a plane weighs directly influences how it needs to be configured for take-off and landing. Countless fatal aviation accidents…
Sarahanne Field, Noah van Dongen & Leo Tiokhin
The scientific community has entered a challenging era, as originally noted by Wagenmakers (2012) . High-profile instances of fraud, failures to replicate foundational studies in psychology, and admissions of research misconduct (John et al., 2012) cast a shadow over the field of psychology…
