Dan Quintana
Co-Host of Everything Hertz
Dan is a Senior Researcher in biological psychiatry at the University of Oslo. He produces and co-hosts Everything Hertz.
Dan Quintana has hosted 192 Episodes.
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193: The pop-up journal
August 7th, 2025 | 59 mins 3 secs
Dan and James chat about a a new 'pop-up journal' concept for addressing specific research questions. They also answer a listener question from a journal grammar editor and discuss a recent PNAS paper on paper mills
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192: Outsourcing in academia
July 1st, 2025 | 47 mins 42 secs
Dan and James answer listener questions on outsourcing in academia and differences in research culture between academic and commercial institutions
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191: Cleaning up contaminated medical treatment guidelines
June 3rd, 2025 | 48 mins 24 secs
James and Dan discuss James' newly funded 'Medical Evidence Project', whose goal is to find questionable medical evidence that is contaminating treatment guidelines.
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190: What happens when you pay reviewers?
April 2nd, 2025 | 44 mins 25 secs
We chat about two new studies that took different approaches for evaluating the impact of paying reviewers on peer review speed and quality.
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189: Crit me baby, one more time
March 2nd, 2025 | 53 mins 40 secs
Dan and James discuss a recent piece that proposes a post-publication review process, which is triggered by citation counts. They also cover how an almetrics trigger could be alternatively used for a more immediate post-publication critique.
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188: Double-blind peer review vs. scientific integrity
January 30th, 2025 | 54 mins 56 secs
Dan and James discuss a recent editorial which argues that double-blind peer review is detrimental to scientific integrity and offers some suggestions for improving peer review, such as open peer review reports and requiring ORCIDs for all authors.
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187: What started the replication crisis era?
December 3rd, 2024 | 55 mins 8 secs
We chat about the events that started the replication crisis in psychology and Dorothy Bishop's recent resignation from the Royal Society
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186: Evaluating journal quality
November 13th, 2024 | 43 mins 11 secs
In this episode we chat about a Nordic approach for evaluating the journal quality and how we should be teaching undergraduates to evaluate journal and article quality
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185: The Retraction
October 4th, 2024 | 1 hr 8 mins
We discuss the recent retraction of a paper that reported the effects of rigour-enhancing practices on replicability. We also cover James' new estimate that 1 out of 7 scientific papers are fake
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184: A race to the bottom
September 5th, 2024 | 48 mins 17 secs
Open access articles have democratized the availability of scientific research, but are author-paid publication fees undermining the quality of science?
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183: Too beautiful to be true
August 3rd, 2024 | 45 mins 5 secs
Dan and James discuss a paper describing a journal editor's efforts to receive data from authors who submitted papers with results that seemed a little too beautiful to be true
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182: What practices should the behavioural sciences borrow (and ignore) from other research fields?
July 2nd, 2024 | 51 mins 9 secs
Dan and James answer a listener question on what practices should the behavioural sciences borrow (and ignore) from other research fields
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181: Down the rabbit hole
June 3rd, 2024 | 42 mins 50 secs
We discuss how following citation chains in psychology can often lead to unexpected places, and how this can contribute to unreplicable findings. We also discuss why team science has taken longer to catch on in psychology compared to other research fields.
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180: Consortium peer reviews
May 2nd, 2024 | 50 mins 14 secs
Dan and James discuss why innovation in scientific publishing is so hard, an emerging consortium peer review model, and a recent replication of the 'refilling soup bowl' study.
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179: Discovery vs. maintenance
April 3rd, 2024 | 48 mins 38 secs
Dan and James discuss how scientific research often neglects the importance of maintenance and long-term access for scientific tools and resources
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178: Alerting researchers about retractions
February 29th, 2024 | 49 mins 45 secs
Dan and James discuss the Retractobot service, which emails authors about papers they've cited that have been retracted. What should authors do if they discover a paper they've cited has been retracted after they published their paper?