Researcher
University of Mannheim
Alex is one of the co-organizers of the MZES Open Social Science Conference 2019, which reflects about the current state of social science research. He is one of the principal investigators of the Crowdsourced Replication Initiative. Alex has taught and published on Open Science practices. Alex‘s main motivation to join the Open Science movement is helping to advance the reliability of published research findings. Within his discipline, political science, he thus promotes changing the incentive structures to reward open and transparent research practices.
Wuttke, Alexander (2019): “Why Too Many Political Science Findings Cannot Be Trusted and What We Can Do About It: A Review of Meta-Scientific Research and a Call for Academic Reform”, German Political Science Quarterly, doi: 10.1007/s11615-018-0131-7
Wuttke, Alexander; Rinke, Eike (2019): “Engaging Credibility Issues in the Social Sciences”, Presentation at Open Social Science Conference Workshop, doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/PCFT5
Breznau, Nate; Wuttke, Alexander; Rinke, Eike…; Żółtak, Tomasz (2019): “The Crowdsourced Replication Initiative: Investigating Immigration and Social Policy Preferences. Executive Report.“, doi: 10.31235/osf.io/6j9qb.