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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 05/09/2026

The Messi Effect in journal metrics: a few superstar articles drive a journal’s impact factor, but that tells us little about the quality of any individual paper. doi.org/10.1177/0145... doi.org/10.1007/s113... doi.org/10.1016/j.di... asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 06/05/2026

Now that "em" and "en" dashes have become so popular, we ought to know why they’re called that

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 03/03/2026

Publishing in a journal means endorsing it. Where you publish reflects your values. Choose wisely. doi.org/10.52057/erj...

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 23/11/2025

Postdoc (and PhD) opportunity in my lab. www.linkedin.com/posts/matthi...

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 25/09/2025

Replicability and transparency in physical therapy research: Time to wake up! doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 20/08/2025

Rethinking where and how we publish in health sciences doi.org/10.51224/SRX...

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 11/08/2025

Explicit attitudes toward people with disabilities became less unfavourable over the 19 years of the study, irrespective of occupation. This effect was not observed for implicit attitudes. utppublishing.com/eprint/CXG7E... doi.org/10.3138/ptc-...

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 07/08/2025

Health care professionals (physicians, physical therapists, nurses, etc.) are not immune to bias against people with physical disabilities. They exhibit similarly unfavourable attitudes as individuals in non-health care occupations. doi.org/10.52057/erj...

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 21/07/2025

"Review mills: groups of reviewers who generate boilerplate peer reviews that do not evaluate the content of the article, and so can be applied to almost any field. Their main function appears to be to act as citation vehicles for members of the review mill." deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/07/trou...

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 15/06/2025

This great editorial clearly explains the Peer Community In (PCI) initiative. It’s from @psych.peercommunityin.org, but it applies to all PCI communities: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 18/05/2025

MRI brain correlates of approach-avoidance tendencies toward sitting, standing, and running. Led by @bcheval.bsky.social. Published in Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social, a university press journal committed to support academia and robust research practices. doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 21/04/2025

In the same vein: Quitting smoking before the age of 0 reduces the risk of death to that of people who have never smoked. doi.org/10.1186/s129...

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 18/04/2025

I really like this one! The benefits of physical activity are similar whether you’ve started late in life or you’ve been active your whole life. doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.0355

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 13/04/2025

Percentage of researchers who engaged in a questionable research practices (QRPs) at least once. It's self-reports, so I guess it's even more than that. lakens.github.io/statistical_...

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 08/04/2025

Fear of movement (kinesiophobia) and physical activity. A meta-analysis now in @ptjournal.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1093/ptj/...

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 08/04/2025

PeerJ is now part of a large for-profit commercial publisher. Sad 😶. peerj.com/blog/post/11...

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 26/02/2025

Clinicians & rehabilitation assistants are not immune to attitudes against people with disabilities. Implicit attitudes of healthcare practitioners were not more favorable than those of other occupations & explicit attitudes of clinicians were even less favorable. #ableism doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 31/01/2025

Double-blind peer review is detrimental to scientific integrity. Openness in the peer review process helps to expose human biases and allows them to be discussed publicly. doi.org/10.1093/etoj...

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 12/01/2025

Our new #preprint led by @bcheval.bsky.social is out: Neural correlates of approach-avoidance tendencies toward physical activity & sedentary stimuli: an MRI study. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 03/12/2024

Policies that require data availability statements should simply be removed because they are misleading. Just say nothing or require actual data sharing. peerj.com/articles/9924/

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 03/12/2024

Only 3 of the 43 authors we contacted (7%) shared their estimates (n = 2) or raw data (n = 1) with us, which is less than reported in previous literature (Gabelica et al., 2022). doi.org/10.1101/2024... doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 28/11/2024

Sorry, my fault, I went from one thing to another. I just wanted to point out that there's a lot of papers with a quick (absent?) peer review process over there scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2020/08/10/g.... SR seems to actually peer review manuscripts. So, authors pay for something.

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 28/11/2024

Yeah, that's crazy. But hey, it can always be worse!

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 27/11/2024

I guess quality proofreading is too expensive for them. 😏 doi.org/10.1162/qss_...

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 24/11/2024

Collaborating with early career researchers to enhance the future of scholarly communication: A guide for publishers. #preprint #openscience #publishing doi.org/10.31219/osf...

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 18/11/2024

Avoid adding "A pilot study" to your article titles just because the sample size is too small. It doesn't work: pilot studies are unsuitable for hypothesis testing. Here are some resources that I found helpful in improving my approach: doi.org/10.1186/1471..., www.bmj.com/content/bmj/...

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 17/11/2024

Live count of Bluesky users: bcounter.nat.vg We will soon be 20,000,000 🥳 @bsky.app Courtesy of @natalie.sh, @jaz.bsky.social, @theo.io

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 01/09/2024

Side projects always end up requiring as much work & time as main projects. I hope my future self remembers that. #SlowScience. We are very proud of this one showing that physical activity levels before a stroke are predictive of post-stroke functional dependence. doi.org/10.1093/ptj/...

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 29/02/2024

Insight into why we move slower as we age: it isn’t because of diminished motivation, it is because of the increased effort required to move. t.co/pDI4lNgsPl

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 15/02/2024

The manual for our "Physical Effort Scale (PES)" is now available online! matthieuboisgontier.com/doc/publicat...

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 27/01/2024

1-Adults who become physically active later in life have mortality rates similar to those of lifelong exercisers. 2-Most of the benefits of activity performed earlier in life are lost if activity is not maintained. doi.org/10.1001/jama...

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 27/01/2024

Recreational running protects knees & hips from osteoarthritis (as compared to non-runners & competitive runners). doi.org/10.2519/josp...

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 27/12/2023

- People: But why do you go to Newfoundland for holidays!? - Me:

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 28/11/2023

That's a classic now. Please use quotation marks and cite your source (Lakens, 2018).

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Matthieu Boisgontier @matthieuboisgontier.com · 17/10/2023

2 years in the making! Our 8-item scale that captures individual differences in tendencies to approach & avoid physical effort is finally out! 👉The Physical Effort Scale (PES)👈 doi.org/10.51224/SRX...

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