Elisabeth Bik
Winner of the Individual Award 2024
Elisabeth Bik is a Dutch microbiologist and independent consultant specializing in scientific integrity. A renowned science whistleblower, she has uncovered fraudulent data in over 7,600 papers, leading to over 1,100 retractions. Bik has exposed the practice of selling authorship through "paper mills," which generate fake studies. As an expert in detecting image manipulation and errors, she shares her findings through her blog, Science Integrity Digest, and social media. Since 2019, she has worked as a crowdfunded consultant promoting research integrity. Support her vital work by donating on Patreon.
PubPeer Foundation
Winner of the Institutional Award 2024
The PubPeer Foundation is a California-registered public-benefit corporation with 501(c)(3) nonprofit status in the United States. The overarching goal of the Foundation is to improve the quality of scientific research by enabling innovative approaches for community interaction. The bylaws of the Foundation establish pubpeer.com as a service run for the benefit of its readers and commenters, who create its content. Their current focus is maintaining and developing the PubPeer online platform for post-publication peer review.
Psychological Science Accelerator
Winner of the Institutional Award 2022
The Psychological Science Accelerator is a globally distributed network of psychological science laboratories with 2468 members representing 73 countries on all six populated continents, that coordinates data collection for democratically selected studies.
Center for Open Science
Winner of the Institutional Award 2021
The Center for Open Science (COS) was founded in 2013 to start, scale, and sustain open research practices that will democratize access to research, improve inclusion of all stakeholders, enhance accountability to research integrity, facilitate the self-corrective process of science, expand transparency and sharing of all research content, and improve research rigor and reproducibility.
arXiv
The arXiv founder Paul Ginsparg was winner of the Individual Award 2021.
arXiv is a curated research-sharing platform open to anyone. As a pioneer in digital open access, arXiv.org now hosts more than two million scholarly articles in eight subject areas, curated by our strong community of volunteer moderators.
ManyBabies5
Winners of the Early Career Award 2021
ManyBabies is a collaborative project for replication and best practices in developmental psychology research.
EU Trials Tracker
Finalists of the Early Career Award 2022
Clinical trials are often underreported, or not reported at all, yet remain the bread and butter of decision-making in health care. To make sure reporting requirements are more reliably met, the scientist from the University of Oxford led the development of audit tools as part of the TrialsTracker project. The publicly available platforms offer automated audits of compliance regarding trial reporting in the US and the EU.