
The Center of Trial
and Error
Creating transparent and responsible scholarship.
We are a non-profit organization experimenting with innovative publishing activities. The Center provides a space for independent reflection on academic practice and stimulates students and early career researchers to disrupt existing scholarly infrastructures.
What Do We Do?
Discussing

Discussing
We define “trial and error” as methodological flaws and conceptual errors in research.
The Center facilitates a reflective discussion on these issues with our blog and by encouraging empirical research and cross-disciplinary conceptual work.
Publishing

Publishing
We aim to publicize the lessons of research struggles, publish answers to the question “what went wrong?”, and independently host non-profit pre-press services.
Two branches of the Center, the Journal of Trial and Error and the Publishers of Trial and Error, are dedicated to this mission.
Training

Training
Institutional change results from well-equipped young people, creating a mass from below.
As such, training is one of our most important activities. We focus efforts to educate students on the systemic and organisational structures of science and scholarship to make change a practical reality.
What's New?

The "Function" of Art?

Preprinting does not meet science’s duty of care responsibility to society

Cultures of Trial and Error
Wissenschaftschmerz

Reflection on the PENTACON Trial
Lessons learned from an unpublished study

Partial Endothelial Trepanation versus Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty in keratoconus patients
Results of the PENTACON trial

Adopt a cultural-historical perspective to adapt misinformation interventions
Reflecting on Harjani et al

How to fail successfully

On the Significance of Place
Vaccination Refusal as a Situated Phenomenon

Breaking Bubbles
Art and Science in a Fractured World

Cultures of Trial and Error
Replication in Social Psychology

Commentary
Running the Risk
