Research

I am a meta-researcher. I have specialized in quantitative science studies (scientometrics), research evaluation, science policy, sociology of science, scholarly communication, research integrity and inferential statistics.

I study social and reward structures in science; scientific norms; research practices and knowledge production modes; how and why researchers cite; how researchers report and publish their claims; evaluation practices and citation impact; notions of reproducibility, as well as science funding and incentive structures.

I have specific research interests in research funding, performance-based funding systems and peer review; how we measure science, explicitly the concepts of interdisciplinary and disruption; citing practices and patterns; questionable research practices; the conceptual confusion around reproducibility.

But foremost, I have a long-standing interest in the ritualistic use of “null hypothesis significance testing” - the main culprit behind decades of pathological knowledge production in the soft sciences.

I have Bayesian inklings and is probably what some would call a “methodological terrorist”!