Research integrity: Don't let transparency damage science

2016/01/22 by Stephan Lewandowsky, Dorothy Bishop · 1 voice · 109 citations
Engineering · Medicine · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Academic integrity and plagiarism #Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education #Engineering #Engineering ethics #Ethics in Clinical Research #Harassment #Law #Law and economics #Open science #Openness to experience #Physics #Political science #Psychology #Public relations #Research integrity #Scientific integrity #Social psychology #Sociology #Transparency (behavior)

paper · pdf · doi:10.1038/529459a

published in Nature 529(7587), 459-461 (Nature Portfolio)

openalex publication_date 2016/01/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29

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Discussions

• 🧪 It's been 10 years since Dorothy Bishop and I published a commentary in Nature about the risks of transparency. doi.org/10.1038/529459a 1/10 [bsky, 79 points, 2 comments]