Many of these ideas have been tried already. Unfortunately they don't work. 1. Pre-registration. Great idea, it's often being done. Doesn't work because univer

Many of these ideas have been tried already. Unfortunately they don't work. 1. Pre-registration. Great idea, it's often being done. Doesn't work because universities don't enforce it. They'd have to proactively check that papers match their pre-registrations and then fire people when they don't. 2. Reproducibility. Nobody gets funded to do this but even if they did, there are lots of bogus studies that can easily be reproduced. The problems are in the methods rather than the data. If you specify a logically invalid or unscientific method, then people following your instructions will calculate the same results and still be wrong. 3. Blindness/splitting work up. This is already how many papers are made and academics turn it around as a defense. Notice how in every single case where this stuff happens, the people whose names are on the paper claim the fraud was done by someone else and they had no idea. Universities invariably accept this claim without question. 4. All results have to be uploaded before publication. Did you mean raw data? Results are the primary content of the paper, so it's unclear what this would mean. Researchers in some fields heavily resist publishing raw data for various (bad) reasons, like academic culture rewarding papers but not data collection efforts, so they're incentivized to squeeze as many papers out of a dataset as possible before revealing it to competitors. In a few fields (like climatology) they often refuse to publish raw data because they're afraid of empowering people who might check their papers for errors, who they see as a sort of shadowy enemy. 5. Authorship history. Which frauds are you thinking of that this would fix? I spent a lot of lockdown time looking at this question. You've listed five ideas, I churned through maybe 15-20. None of them work. On investigation they've usually been tried before and academics immediately work around them. Science is littered with integrity theatre in which systems are put in place in response to some fraud, and they appear to be operating on the surface, but nothing is actually being checked or enforced. > Overall, we have to incentivize good science. I'm by now 95% convinced the only way to do this is for scientific research to be done commercially. No government or charitable funding of science at all. As long as science is being firehosed with money by people who don't actually use or consume the resulting papers, the incentive will always be to provide the appearance of doing science without actually doing it. It's just so much more effective for fundraising. Commercial science that's purchased by someone has a customer who will actually try to check they got what they paid for at some point, and can vote with their wallet if they didn't. Also legal protections and systems to stop fraud in markets are well developed. Notice that Elizabeth Holmes went to prison for defrauding investors. If she'd done the same thing at a university she'd have gotten away with it scot free.