by Álvaro Hontanar | Sep 17, 2026 | Metascience, Open Science
Peer review is one of the foundations of scholarly communication. Researchers dedicate significant amounts of time to evaluating manuscripts, checking methods, assessing whether conclusions are supported by evidence, and helping authors improve their work. Yet this...
by Álvaro Hontanar | Jul 10, 2026 | AI in science, Open Science
When we think about bad science, we often imagine big scandals. However, not all problems in science look like clear fraud. Many of them happen in a more uncomfortable space: the area between grey science and scientific misconduct. This is where the concept...
by Álvaro Hontanar | May 8, 2026 | Open Science
Becoming an open responsible scientist is not a single action, but a path built step by step. Each step helps make research clearer, safer and more useful: understanding openness, organizing data, sharing code, collaborating with others and involving society when it...
by Álvaro Hontanar | Apr 10, 2026 | Data, Open Science
Becoming an open and responsible scientist is not only about publishing papers. Today, knowledge is much more than that. It also includes data, software, scripts… If you want to be a real open scientist, you should share all these parts of your research. To make...
by Álvaro Hontanar | Mar 4, 2026 | Open Science
Celebrating Open Education Week by Welcoming Richard West to OpenScienceLab We take advantage of Open Education Week 2026 to welcome Richard West to UC3M as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar. Open Education Week is a celebration of the global Open Education Movement,...
by Álvaro Hontanar | Feb 6, 2026 | Open Science
We often discuss how outdated the way researchers are assessed is: rewarding the number of publications and relying on obsolete metrics that fail to capture the real value of scientific work. What we talk about much less is another factor that deeply reinforces this...
