Academic Articles

Proske, U., Hillier, J., Gaillard, S., Blume, T., Queiroz Alves, E., Buiter, S., Carslaw, K. S., von Elverfeldt, K., van Emmerik, T. H. M., Ervens, B., Hut, R., Illingworth, S., Klotz, D., & Pyschik, J. (2026). Editorial: Introducing a new article type: Limitations, errors, surprises, shortcomings and opportunities for new science (LESSONS) [Preprint]. EGUsphere. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-987

Trueblood, J. S., Allison, D. B., Field, S. M., Fishbach, A., Gaillard, S. D. M., et al. (2025). The misalignment of incentives in academic publishing and implications for journal reform. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(5), e2401231121.

Gigerenzer, G., Allen, C., Gaillard, S., Goldstone, R. L., Haaf, J., Holmes, W. R., et al. (2025). Alternative models of funding curiosity-driven research. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(5), e2401237121.

Gaillard, S. D. M., & Hachana, S. (2025). The rise and fall of promises: A preliminary method to trace promises in science and technology. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 12(1), 2440965.

Panizza, F., Camminga, T., Gaillard, S., & Grüning, D. J. (2025). Adopt a cultural-historical perspective to adapt misinformation interventions: Reflecting on Harjani et al. Journal of Trial and Error.

Panizza, F., Camminga, T., Gaillard, S., & Grüning, D. J. (2025). Adopt a cultural-historical perspective to adapt misinformation interventions: Reflecting on Harjani et al. 2023. OSF.

Gaillard, S., Van Geelen, S., Landstra, E., & Hoes, A. (2025). The case for embracing trial-and-error in health research: Rethinking failure and uncertainty as foundations of progress. Journal of Trial and Error, 5(1).

De Wit, K., Gaillard, S., Sirag, S., Reeder, Y., Wolfrat-van der Aart, E., Dons, K., et al. (2025). Een verkenning van het huidige onderwijslandschap op het gebied van samenwerkingen tussen de domeinen van kunst, zorg en welzijn in Nederland.

Gaillard, S., Reeder, Y., Sirag, S., De Wit, K., Van der Aart, E., Camuti, F., et al. (2025). Een verkenning van het huidige onderwijslandschap op het gebied van samenwerkingen tussen de domeinen van kunst, zorg en welzijn in Nederland. OSF.

Van den Akker, O. R., Bakker, M., Van Assen, M. A. L. M., Pennington, C. R., et al. (2024). The potential of preregistration in psychology: Assessing preregistration producibility and preregistration-study consistency. Psychological Methods.

Gigerenzer, G., Allen, C., Gaillard, S. D. M., Goldstone, R. L., Haaf, J., Holmes, W. R., et al. (2024). Alternative models of research funding.

Field, S., Gaillard, S. D. M., Grüning, D. J., & Visser, A. J. (2024). Editorial from our incoming editor in chief: Introducing open peer review, streamlined review, and a trial of the registered report format.

Van den Akker, O. R., Bakker, M., Van Assen, M. A. L. M., Pennington, C. R., Verweij, L., et al. (2023). The effectiveness of preregistration in psychology: Assessing preregistration strictness and preregistration-study consistency. MetaArXiv.

Janssens, M., Gaillard, S., De Haan, J., De Leeuw, W., Brooke, M., Burke, M., et al. (2023). How open science can support the 3Rs and improve animal research. Research Ideas and Outcomes, 9, e105198.

Gaillard, S., Mody, C., & Halffman, W. (2023). Overpromising in science and technology: An evaluative conceptualization. TATuP – Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice, 32(3), 60–65.

Gaillard, S. (2023-1). De noodzakelijkheid van dwang. Podium.

Gaillard, S. D. M., & Visser, J. (2022). Pockets, dresses and suppression: A philosophical reflection on clothing, agency, and identity. Technology in Society, 69, 101972.

Gaillard, S., & Devine, S. (2022). Systemic problems in academia: The positive publication bias and solutions from a human factors perspective. Journal of Trial and Error, 2(1), 1–5.

Gaillard, S., Van Viegen, T., Veldsman, M., Stefan, M. I., & Cheplygina, V. (2022). Ten simple rules for failing successfully in academia. PLOS Computational Biology, 18(12), e1010538.

Maas, A., Gaillard, S., Van Charldorp, T., Christophe, N., Van Geelen, S., et al. (2022). Interdisciplinariteit als wapen tegen fake news? Podium, 32.

Gaillard, S. (2022). What ails them? Reassessing the ethical and epistemological underpinning of open academia.

Gaillard, S., Oláh, Z. A., Venmans, S., & Burke, M. (2021). Countering the cognitive, linguistic, and psychological underpinnings behind susceptibility to fake news: A review of current literature with special focus on the role of age. Frontiers in Communication, 6, 661801.

Devine, S., Bautista-Perpinya, M., Delrue, V., Gaillard, S., Jorna, T., et al. (2020). Science fails. Let’s publish. Journal of Trial and Error, 1(1), 1–5.

Gaillard, S., & Perpinya, M. B. (2020). Open science symposium Utrecht: Starting off with the natural sciences. A Blog of Trial & Error.

Gaillard, S., & Perpinya, M. B. (2019). Becoming an open access online journal. A Blog of Trial & Error.

Opinion Pieces

‘”Ik denk dat we dat allemaal vinden”‘, DUB March 2025.

‘The moral bankruptcy of abolishing the Honours Programme’, DUB December 2024.

‘Students’ fear of failure partly caused by their examples’, DUB November 2024.

‘Vroedvrouwen van de wetenschap’, DUB October 2024.

‘Co-auteurschap is dood, lang leve co-auteurschap’, DUB June 2024.

‘Let’s respect the freedom of choice of universities and international students’, DUB April 2024.

‘Science reform movements have been co-opted by egalitarians’, DUB March 2024.

‘Een menselijke fout moet niet leiden tot ontslag’, EW Podium July 2021.

‘Waar is de vrouwelijke proefpersoon?’, Trouw April 2021.

‘Scientists are not open about their mistakes; they should be’, The Post Online June 2020.

‘De overheid werkt al decennia boeren- en dierenleed in de hand’, The Post Online February 2019.

with M. van der Meer, ‘Wetenschap, wees eens eerlijk over jezelf!’, DUB December 2019.

‘Extinction Rebellion, denken jullie ook aan kernenergie’, The Post Online October 2019.

‘Het boerkaverbod is niet racistisch maar wel problematisch’, The Post Online October 2019.

‘Transhumanism: Five common misconceptions’, The Post Online October 2019.

‘Stop met pseudowetenschappelijke diagnoses van politici’, The Post Online September 2019.

‘Kies alternatieven voor dwang in de psychiatrie’, de Volkskrant August 2019.

with Alex Visser, ‘Is the Dutch “Soft Government” Approach a Model for America?’, Foundation for Economic Education January 2019.