David Weisburd, Distinguished Professor, Criminology, Law and Society, College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS); Executive Director, Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy (CEBCP), received funding for: “Safer Stronger Together (SST) Initiative: An evaluation of the impact of a place-based social intervention on youth and their families.” 

The recipient of this year’s Individual Award, Elisabeth Bik, is a microbiologist, science whistleblower, and independent consultant for scientific integrity. Bik has uncovered the use of fraudulent or erroneous data for more than 7,600 scientific papers and has shed light on the practice of selling authorship for fabricated studies. This year’s Institutional Award recognizes the relevance of PubPeer, a platform for rapid post-publication review and discussion of published scientific data. PubPeer’s impact on the scientific community has been significant: it has helped identify flaws in the work of eminent scientists, combatted fraud, and fostered the emergence of an international, multidisciplinary community of research integrity experts. The 2024 Early Career Award goes to the project PixelQuality by Christopher Schmied and Helena Jambor, which aims to improve reproducibility in life sciences by establishing rigorous guidelines for research image publication and preparing for AI‘s role in their generation and analysis.