Rate My Professor Daniele Fanelli

Fanelli's research specializations encompass metascience, focusing on the nature of science, scientific misconduct, publication bias, retractions, reproducibility, and the theoretical modeling of knowledge using computational complexity, information theory, statistics, sociology, and philosophy of science. He has developed methodologies to quantify bias and misconduct across disciplines and tested hypotheses on their risk factors through bibliometric techniques. Key publications include 'How Many Scientists Fabricate and Falsify Research? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Survey Data' (PLoS ONE, 2009), 'What difference might retractions make? An estimate of the potential epistemic cost of retractions on meta-analyses' (Accountability in Research, 2022), 'Do individual and institutional predictors of misconduct vary by country?' (PLoS ONE, 2022), and 'Footprint of publication selection bias on meta-analyses in medicine' (Research Synthesis Methods, 2024). Fanelli has received the Leverhulme Early-Career Fellowship in 2010, Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship in 2008, and LSE Excellence in Education Award in 2021. He delivers invited talks on research integrity and reproducibility, such as 'Research integrity in context' (2025) and 'Cautionary tales from Metascience' (2024), and contributes editorially as an academic editor for PLoS ONE and on boards of Accountability in Research and Journal of Negative Results in Biomedicine. His work has significantly influenced discussions on research practices and objectivity in science.