Reproducibility and open science

I participate in large-scale collaborative projects that assess the reproducibility and robustness of empirical findings in the social sciences. As part of a team of over 300 researchers, I contributed to a study published in Nature that systematically re-analysed economics and political science research, finding that the majority of original findings are reproducible but that effect sizes are often smaller than originally reported. I have also been involved in work comparing human-only, AI-assisted, and AI-led teams in assessing research reproducibility.

Beyond collaborative replication projects, my commitment to open science has shaped my work as Editor-in-Chief of European Societies (2021–2026). Together with my co-editors, I introduced mandatory replication packages for quantitative articles — a pioneering step in sociology that has since been adopted by other leading journals. We also led the journal’s transition to a non-commercial, diamond open access model under MIT Press, making all articles free to read and free to publish, and opened the journal’s entire back catalogue to readers worldwide. These changes reflect a broader vision of sociological knowledge as a public good, where access and voice move together: lowering barriers to participation while ensuring that a broader range of scholars, institutions, and regions shapes the discipline’s debates.

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