OpenPsych

OpenPsych
Founded2014
FoundersEmil O. W. Kirkegaard, Davide Piffer
Country of originDenmark
Official websiteopenpsych.net

OpenPsych is an online collection of three pseudoscientific open access journals covering behavioral genetics, psychology, and quantitative research in sociology. Many articles on OpenPsych promote scientific racism,[1][2] and the site has been described as a "pseudoscience factory-farm".[3] The journals were started in 2014 by a pair of nonprofessional researchers, Emil Kirkegaard and Davide Piffer, who had difficulty publishing their studies in mainstream peer-reviewed scientific journals.[1][4] The website describes its contents as open peer reviewed journals, but the qualifications and neutrality of its reviewers and quality of reviews have been disputed.

  1. ^ a b Panofsky, Aaron; Dasgupta, Kushan; Iturriaga, Nicole (2020-09-28). "How White nationalists mobilize genetics: From genetic ancestry and human biodiversity to counterscience and metapolitics". American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 175 (2): 387–398. doi:10.1002/ajpa.24150. ISSN 0002-9483. PMC 9909835. PMID 32986847.
  2. ^ Bird, Kevin A.; Carlson, Jedidiah (2024). "Typological thinking in human genomics research contributes to the production and prominence of scientific racism". Frontiers in Genetics. 15. doi:10.3389/fgene.2024.1345631. PMC 10910073. PMID 38440191.
  3. ^ van der Merwe, Ben (2018-12-20). "No, objecting to Cambridge's appointment of a eugenicist is not about free speech". New Statesman. GlobalData. Archived from the original on 2019-08-27. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  4. ^ Ward, Justin (2018-03-12). "Wikipedia wars: inside the fight against far-right editors, vandals and sock puppets". Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on 2020-05-14. Retrieved 2019-07-10.