Personal profile
Research interests
- Errors with Statistics
- Scientific integrity
- Data sharing
- Science policy
- Publication bias
- Research methodology
- Intelligence (IQ)
- Measurement invariance
- Cognitive abilities
- Questionable research practices
- Psychometrics
Career
Jelte Wicherts (1976) received both his Master's degree (2002, cum laude) and PhD degree (2007, cum laude) from the Psychological Methods group at the University of Amsterdam. He has published on a wide range of topics related to reproducibility, replication, individual differences, statistics, and measurement. His research interests include group differences in IQ, reproducibility, biases in research, measurement invariance, stereotype threat, the Flynn Effect, structural equation modeling, errors with statistics, and data sharing. He is (co)author of over 100 publications in various peer-reviewed journals, including Intelligence, Proceedings of the Royal Society: B, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Perspectives on Psychological Science, Psychological Bulletin, Structural Equation Modeling, Behavior Research Methods, Psychological Methods, Psychological Science, PLoS ONE, and Nature. He has reviewed for 65 different journals and is an editorial board member of the journals Intelligence, Psychological Methods, and the Journal of Health Psychology. From 2007-2012 he was an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam. From 2012-2017 he was an Associate Professor at the Department of Methodology and Statistics at Tilburg University. In 2017, he became full professor in methodology of the social and behavioral sciences at the same department. He has acquired Open Competition (200K Euros), VENI (208K), VIDI (800K), and VICI (1500K) grants from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and a Consolidator grant (2000k) from the European Research Council. He is affiliate member of the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS) and a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS).
Current courses
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External positions
Advising on methods and data handling of methodology department SCP (Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau (SCP))
1 Jan 2020 → …
Writing book on data management (Taylor & Francis)
22 Aug 2018 → 31 Dec 2025
Keywords
- Intelligence
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 2 Zero Hunger
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
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SDG 5 Gender Equality
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SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
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SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Good, bad, different or something else? A scoping review of the convictions, conventions and developments around quality in qualitative research
Salet, X., Gelissen, J., Moors, G. & Wicherts, J., 25 Jun 2025, In: Royal Society Open Science. 12, 6, 20 p., 242001.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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What it takes to tutor: A preregistered direct replication of the scaffolding experimental study by D. Wood et al. (1978)
Smit, N., de Kleijn, R., Wicherts, J. M. & van de Pol, J., Jul 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Educational Psychology. 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Correcting for outcome reporting bias in a meta-analysis: A meta-regression approach
van Aert, R. C. M. & Wicherts, J. M., 2024, In: Behavior Research Methods. 56, p. 1994-2012 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Implementing statcheck during peer review is related to a steep decline in statistical-reporting inconsistencies
Nuijten, M. B. & Wicherts, J. M., Jun 2024, In: Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 7, 2, 14 p., 25152459241258945.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Subjective evidence evaluation survey for many-analysts studies
Sarafoglou, A., Hoogeveen, S., Van Den Bergh, D., Aczel, B., Albers, C. J., Althoff, T., Botvinik-Nezer, R., Busch, N. A., Cataldo, A. M., Devezer, B., Van Dongen, N. N. N., Dreber, A., Fried, E. I., Hoekstra, R., Hoffman, S., Holzmeister, F., Huber, J., Huntington-Klein, N., Ioannidis, J. & Johannesson, M. & 20 others, , 2024, In: Royal Society Open Science. 11, 7, 28 p., 240125.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Prizes
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Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS fellow)
Wicherts, J. (Recipient), 2020
Prize: Fellowship
Datasets
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Ensuring the quality and specificity of preregistrations
Bakker, M. (Contributor), Veldkamp, C. L. S. (Contributor), van Assen, M. (Contributor), Crompvoets, E. (Contributor), Ong, H. H. (Contributor), Nosek, B. A. (Contributor), Wicherts, J. (Contributor) & Bero, L. (Contributor), OSF, 2020
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Effect sizes, power, and biases in intelligence research: A meta-meta-analysis
Nuijten, M. (Contributor), van Assen, M. (Contributor), Augusteijn, H. (Contributor), Crompvoets, E. (Contributor) & Wicherts, J. (Contributor), OSF, 2020
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Replication data for: The dire disregard of measurement invariance testing in psychological science
D'Urso, D. (Creator), Maassen, E. (Creator), Van Assen, M. (Creator), Nuijten, M. (Creator), De Roover, K. (Creator) & Wicherts, J. (Creator), DataverseNL, 15 Dec 2022
DOI: 10.34894/9euwvm, https://dataverse.nl/citation%3FpersistentId=doi:10.34894/9EUWVM
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Data from ‘Cohort Differences in Big Five Personality Factors Over a Period of 25 Years’
Wicherts, J. (Creator), DataverseNL, 27 Nov 2023
DOI: 10.34894/8nga0r, https://dataverse.nl/citation?persistentId=doi:10.34894/8NGA0R
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Assessing the temporal stability of psychological constructs
Lodder, P. (Creator), Kupper, N. (Creator), Mols, F. (Creator), Emons, W. (Creator) & Wicherts, J. (Creator), OSF, 2020
https://osf.io/e7ajr/?view_only=41e3de13bb2e4a2eaa4168f0e124fdcc
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