Rate My Professor Kelly Cobey

Dr. Kelly Cobey is an Associate Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa and serves as Scientist and Director of the Metaresearch and Open Science Program at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. She earned a PhD in social psychology from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, along with an MRes and BSc. Before her appointments at the University of Ottawa, she worked as a lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Stirling in Scotland and as an investigator and publications officer at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, where she provided consulting on publication best practices.

Dr. Cobey’s academic interests center on journalology, research design and reporting, open access and predatory journals, open science, and reproducibility. She has served as a member of EQUATOR Canada since 2015, on the Advisory Board of the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), and on the Science Policy Committee for Research Data Canada. In 2018 she was co-recipient of the University of Ottawa Open Scholarship Award. She has received funding from the Wellcome Trust to develop an international dashboard tracking open science practices and from Compute Ontario for training on responsible data handling. Selected publications include “Stress testing journals: a quasi-experimental study of rejection rates of a previously published paper” (BMC Medicine, 2020), “Predatory Journals: No definition, no defence” (Nature, 2019), and “What is a predatory journal? A scoping review” (F1000, 2018).