Contact

All Stories

  1. Reading words of out order: Comparing serial and parallel accounts of the transposed word effect

    Article • Cognition, April 2026, Elsevier

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  2. The Nature of Phonological Impairments in Dyslexia and Stuttering: Evidence from Phonemic, Semantic, and Design Fluency Tasks

    Article • February 2026, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  3. What Pilot Studies Can (and Cannot) Do for Validity in Psychological Research

    Article • February 2026, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif, Christopher James Graham

  4. “The significance of context”: Fit, friction and function in the work lives of early-career academics with ADHD.

    Article • February 2026, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  5. Tracking and mainstreaming replications in the social, cognitive, and behavioral sciences

    Article • December 2025, Center for Open Science

    Christopher James Graham, Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  6. Why I declare a conflict of interest and you should not

    Article • Theory and Society, November 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  7. Academic anxiety and cognitive reflection in neurodivergence based on evidence from a large international sample

    Article • Scientific Reports, October 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif, Christopher Hand

  8. Investigating object orientation effects across 18 languages

    Article • Current Psychology, October 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  9. Public Communication about Science in 68 Countries: Global Evidence on How People Encounter and Engage with Information about Science

    Article • Science Communication, October 2025, SAGE Publications

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  10. Lexical Precision Moderates Stroop Interference in Dyslexia and Stuttering

    Article • October 2025, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  11. Core principles of responsible generative AI usage in research

    Article • AI and Ethics, October 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  12. A competitive edge: how social cues and spatial congruence influence joint attention in addressed or witnessed interactions

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, October 2025, Royal Society Publishing

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  13. Evaluate what is claimed to be confirmed: Initial version of a Falsification Assessment Form (FAF)

    Article • Methodology, September 2025, Leibniz-Institute of Psychology Information (ZPID)

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  14. Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages

    Article • Nature Human Behaviour, September 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif, Dr. Alexios Arvanitis, Professor Sergio E. Chaigneau

  15. Tracking the Impact of Family Size and Frequency on L1 and L2 Collocation Processing Over Time

    Article • September 2025, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  16. Flexible behavior or flexible methods? A cross-taxon review of experimental designs in reversal learning

    Article • September 2025, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  17. A Competitive Edge: How Social Cues and Spatial Congruence Influence Joint Attention in addressed or witnessed interactions

    Article • September 2025, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  18. Do neurodivergent individuals have higher statistics and mathematics anxiety? Evaluating evidence from a large, multi-lab study

    Article • September 2025, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif, Christopher Hand

  19. Accuracy in Parameter Estimation and Simulation Approaches for Sample Size Planning with Multiple Stimuli

    Article • September 2025, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  20. A call for greater transparency in piloting

    Article • August 2025, Center for Open Science

    Christopher James Graham, Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  21. Evaluate what is claimed to be confirmed: Initial version of a falsification assessment form (FAF)

    Article • July 2025, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  22. Do neurodivergent individuals have higher statistics and mathematics anxiety? Evaluating evidence from a large, multi-lab study

    Article • July 2025, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif, Christopher Hand

  23. Flexible behavior or flexible methods? A cross-taxon review of experimental designs in reversal learning

    Article • July 2025, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  24. Bestiary of Questionable Research Practices in Psychology

    Article • Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, July 2025, SAGE Publications

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  25. Open Science in the Developing World: A Collection of Practical Guides for Researchers in Developing Countries

    Article • Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, July 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr Chinchu C, Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  26. Flexible Behavior or Flexible Methods? A Cross-Taxon Review of Experimental Designs in Reversal Learning

    Article • June 2025, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  27. The Lived Experience of Dyspraxia: Challenging Ableism and Embracing Neurodiversity

    Article • Neurodiversity, June 2025, SAGE Publications

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  28. The fNIRS glossary project: a consensus-based resource for functional near-infrared spectroscopy terminology

    Article • Neurophotonics, April 2025, SPIE

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  29. Evaluate what is claimed to be confirmed: Initial version of a falsification assessment form (FAF)

    Article • April 2025, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  30. Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology

    Article • BMC Biology, February 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan Law, Dr Michael S Rosenberg, Mr Mahmoud Elsherif, Dr Stefano Mammola

  31. Bridging Neurodiversity and Open Scholarship: How Shared Values Can Guide Best Practices for Research Integrity, Social Justice, and Principled Education

    Article • February 2025, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  32. Bestiary of Questionable Research Practices in Psychology

    Article • January 2025, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  33. Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries – the TISP dataset

    Article • Scientific Data, January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  34. Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries

    Article • Nature Human Behaviour, January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer, Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  35. Oxytocin in autism: Rethinking treatment and research through a neurodivergent perspective

    Article • Psychoneuroendocrinology, January 2025, Elsevier

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  36. Challenges and promises of big team comparative cognition

    Article • Nature Human Behaviour, December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jennifer Vonk, Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  37. An annotated introductory reading list for neurodiversity

    Article • eLife, December 2024, eLife

    Christopher James Graham, Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  38. Do neurodivergent individuals have higher statistics and mathematics anxiety? Evaluating evidence from a large, multi-lab study

    Article • November 2024, Center for Open Science

    Christopher Hand, Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  39. The potential of preregistration in psychology: Assessing preregistration producibility and preregistration-study consistency.

    Article • Psychological Methods, October 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Olmo van den Akker, Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  40. How Age of Acquisition Affects Compound Word Recognition

    Article • Scientific Studies of Reading, October 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  41. The International Climate Psychology Collaboration: Climate change-related data collected from 63 countries

    Article • Scientific Data, October 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif, Roman Briker

  42. Validity and Transparency in Quantifying Open-Ended Data

    Article • Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, October 2024, SAGE Publications

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  43. The Replication Database: Documenting the Replicability of Psychological Science

    Article • Journal of Open Psychology Data, September 2024, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Christopher James Graham, Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  44. How Age of acquisition affects compound word recognition

    Article • September 2024, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  45. Mapping students' Open Science attitudes and preferences: Country and education level differences - PCI RR Stage 1 Report

    Article • September 2024, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  46. Mapping students' Open Science attitudes and preferences: Country and education level differences - PCI RR Stage 1 Report

    Article • September 2024, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  47. Registered report: Insufficient evidence of a positive association between chronic loneliness and anthropomorphism: Replication and extension of Epley, Akalis, et al. (2008).

    Article • Psychology of Consciousness Theory Research and Practice, September 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  48. Principles for Responsible AI Usage in Research

    Article • August 2024, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  49. A template and tutorial for preregistering studies using passive smartphone measures

    Article • Behavior Research Methods, August 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  50. Mapping students' Open Science attitudes and preferences: Country and education level differences - PCI RR Snapshot

    Article • June 2024, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  51. Mapping students' Open Science attitudes and preferences: Country and education level differences - PCI RR Snapshot

    Article • June 2024, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  52. Large-scale cross-societal examination of real- and minimal-group biases

    Article • June 2024, Center for Open Science

    Radoslaw Walczak, Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  53. Challenges and Promises of Big Team Comparative Cognition

    Article • May 2024, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  54. Bestiary of Questionable Research Practices in Psychology

    Article • May 2024, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  55. The Replication Database: Documenting the Replicability of Psychological Science

    Article • April 2024, Center for Open Science

    Christopher James Graham, Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  56. A Template and Tutorial for Preregistering Studies Using Passive Smartphone Measures

    Article • March 2024, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  57. A Template and Tutorial for Preregistering Studies Using Passive Smartphone Measures

    Article • March 2024, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  58. We don't know what you did last summer. On the importance of transparent reporting of reaction time data pre-processing

    Article • Cortex, March 2024, Elsevier

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  59. A guide for social science journal editors on easing into open science

    Article • Research Integrity and Peer Review, February 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  60. Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries

    Article • Science Advances, February 2024, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif, Dr Siobhán M Griffin, Roman Briker

  61. Comparative Cognition Needs Big Team Science: How Large-Scale Collaborations Will Unlock the Future of the Field

    Article • Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews, January 2024, Comparative Cognition Society

    Dr Christian Nawroth, Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  62. Accuracy in Parameter Estimation and Simulation Approaches for Sample Size Planning with Multiple Stimuli

    Article • December 2023, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  63. Preregistration in practice: A comparison of preregistered and non-preregistered studies in psychology

    Article • Behavior Research Methods, November 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  64. Promoting Civility in Formal And Informal Open Science Contexts

    Article • October 2023, Center for Open Science

    Dr Gillian W Shorter, Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  65. Are two words recalled or recognised as one? How age-of-acquisition affects memory for compound words

    Article • Journal of Memory and Language, October 2023, Elsevier

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  66. Evaluating the Pedagogical Effectiveness of Study Preregistration in the Undergraduate Dissertation

    Article • Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, October 2023, SAGE Publications

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  67. Comparative Cognition Needs Big Team Science: How Large-Scale Collaborations Will Unlock the Future of the Field

    Article • September 2023, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif, Dr Christian Nawroth

  68. What animals can tell us about attentional prerequisites of language acquisition

    Article • Language & Communication, September 2023, Elsevier

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  69. The replication crisis has led to positive structural, procedural, and community changes

    Article • Communications Psychology, July 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  70. Guidelines to improve internationalization in the psychological sciences

    Article • Social and Personality Psychology Compass, July 2023, Wiley

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  71. An integrative framework for planning and conducting Non-Intervention, Reproducible, and Open Systematic Reviews (NIRO-SR).

    Article • Meta-Psychology, July 2023, Linnaeus University

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  72. Multidimensional Signals and Analytic Flexibility: Estimating Degrees of Freedom in Human-Speech Analyses

    Article • Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, July 2023, SAGE Publications

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif, Tiphaine Caudrelier

  73. Are Two Words Recalled or Recognised as One? How Age-of-Acquisition Affects Memory for Compound Words

    Article • June 2023, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  74. Data from an International Multi-Centre Study of Statistics and Mathematics Anxieties and Related Variables in University Students (the SMARVUS Dataset)

    Article • Journal of Open Psychology Data, May 2023, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Dr Nicholas A Badcock, Mr Mahmoud Elsherif, Dr Siobhán M Griffin

  75. The replication crisis has led to positive structural, procedural, and community changes

    Article • May 2023, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  76. Preregistration in practice: A comparison of preregistered and non-preregistered studies in psychology

    Article • May 2023, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  77. The transposed-word effect provides no unequivocal evidence for parallel processing

    Article • Attention Perception & Psychophysics, May 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  78. The effectiveness of preregistration in psychology: Assessing preregistration strictness and preregistration-study consistency

    Article • May 2023, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  79. Teaching open and reproducible scholarship: a critical review of the evidence base for current pedagogical methods and their outcomes

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, May 2023, Royal Society Publishing

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif, Timo Lüke

  80. Bridging Open Scholarship with Higher Education and Postgraduate Training in Autism: A Primer and Guide

    Article • April 2023, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  81. Reporting and interpreting non-significant results in animal cognition research

    Article • PeerJ, March 2023, PeerJ

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  82. Best practices for addressing missing data through multiple imputation

    Article • Infant and Child Development, February 2023, Wiley

    Mrs Sierra A Bainter, Dr Pamela Davis-Kean, Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  83. From Puzzle to Progress: How Engaging With Neurodiversity Can Improve Cognitive Science

    Article • Cognitive Science, February 2023, Wiley

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  84. Age-of-acquisition effects: A literature review.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, January 2023, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  85. Opening up understanding of neurodiversity: A call for applying participatory and open scholarship practices

    Article • The Cognitive Psychology Bulletin, January 2023, British Psychological Society

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  86. We don’t know what you did last summer. On the importance of transparent reporting of reaction time data pre-processing

    Article • December 2022, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  87. From Puzzle to Progress: How engaging with Neurodiversity can improve Cognitive Science

    Article • December 2022, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  88. Contextual factors predicting compliance behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic: A machine learning analysis on survey data from 16 countries

    Article • PLOS One, November 2022, PLOS

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  89. Age-of-acquisition effects: A literature review

    Article • November 2022, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  90. Orthographic precision for word naming in skilled readers

    Article • Language Cognition and Neuroscience, August 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  91. Guidelines to Improve Internationalization in Psychological Science

    Article • August 2022, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  92. Correction to: Two words as one: A multi-naming investigation of the age-of-acquisition effect in compound-word processing

    Article • Memory & Cognition, August 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  93. Examining the generalizability of research findings from archival data

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Gerardus JM Lucas, Mr Mahmoud Elsherif, Felix Holzmeister, PhD Tiia Vissak, Dr Steve MJ Janssen, Dr Hinrich Voss, Raquel Freitag

  94. Bridging Neurodiversity and Open Scholarship: How Shared Values Can Guide Best Practices for Research Integrity, Social Justice, and Principled Education

    Article • June 2022, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  95. Bridging Neurodiversity and Open Scholarship: How Shared Values Can Guide Best Practices for Research Integrity, Social Justice, and Principled Education

    Article • June 2022, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  96. Teaching Open and Reproducible Scholarship: A Critical Review of the Evidence Base for Current Pedagogical Methods and their Outcomes

    Article • April 2022, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  97. Towards a culture of open scholarship: the role of pedagogical communities

    Article • BMC Research Notes, February 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  98. A community-sourced glossary of open scholarship terms

    Article • Nature Human Behaviour, February 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christopher James Graham, Mr Mahmoud Elsherif, William Ngiam, Birgit Schmidt

  99. A Community-Sourced Glossary of Open Scholarship Terms

    Article • February 2022, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  100. Reporting and interpreting non-significant results in animal cognition research

    Article • February 2022, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  101. Research Without Borders: How to Identify and Overcome Potential Pitfalls in International Large-Team Online Research Projects

    Article • January 2022, SAGE Publications

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  102. Embedding open and reproducible science into teaching: A bank of lesson plans and resources.

    Article • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, December 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Martin R. Vasilev, Ronan McGarrigle, Charlotte Pennington, David Moreau, Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  103. Age of acquisition effects on the decomposition of compound words

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Psychology, December 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  104. Age of Acquisition Effects on the decomposition of compound words

    Article • November 2021, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  105. Towards a culture of open scholarship: The role of pedagogical communities

    Article • November 2021, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  106. What are English compounds made of?

    Article • October 2021, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  107. Phonological precision for word recognition in skilled readers

    Article • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, September 2021, SAGE Publications

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  108. Embedding open and reproducible science into teaching: A bank of lesson plans and resources

    Article • July 2021, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  109. Age of acquisition effects in recognition without identification tasks

    Article • May 2021, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  110. Age of acquisition effects in recognition without identification tasks

    Article • Memory, May 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  111. A creative destruction approach to replication: Implicit work and sex morality across cultures

    Article • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, March 2021, Elsevier

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif, Felix Holzmeister, Irene Scopelliti, Dr Steve MJ Janssen, Victor Maas, Timo Lüke

  112. Do dyslexia and stuttering share a processing deficit?

    Article • Journal of Fluency Disorders, March 2021, Elsevier

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  113. An integrative framework for planning and conducting Non-Intervention, Reproducible, and Open Systematic Reviews (NIRO-SR)

    Article • December 2020, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  114. Creative destruction in science

    Article • Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, November 2020, Elsevier

    Nick Byrd, Raquel Freitag, Mr Mahmoud Elsherif, Prof Deirdre E. O'Shea

  115. The hunt for the age of acquisition effect: It's in the links!

    Article • Acta Psychologica, September 2020, Elsevier

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  116. The hunt for the Age of Acquisition effect: It’s in the links!

    Article • July 2020, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  117. Effects of individual differences in lexical quality: Neighbourhood effects in naming

    Article • February 2020, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  118. Introducing a Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (FORRT)

    Article • December 2019, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  119. Two words as one: A multi-naming investigation of the age-of-acquisition effect in compound-word processing

    Article • Memory & Cognition, November 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  120. Do dyslexia and stuttering share a processing deficit?

    Article • November 2019, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  121. Two words as one: A multi-naming investigation of the age-of-acquisition effect in compound word processing

    Article • July 2019, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  122. Lexical-semantic precision for word recognition in skilled readers

    Article • June 2019, Center for Open Science

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  123. Ontogeny vs. Phylogeny in Primate/Canid Comparisons: A Meta-analysis of the Object Choice Task

    Article • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, June 2019, Elsevier

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif

  124. Eyes and mouths alone matter to recognise happiness and fear

    Article • PLOS One, March 2017, PLOS

    Mr Mahmoud Elsherif