OHBM Replication Award


The OHBM Replication Award is an award presented annually by the Organization for Human Brain Mapping. It is presented to a researcher in recognition of conducting and disseminating the results of a neuroimaging replication study of exceptional quality and impact.

Winners

YearResearcherScientific Article
2020Andre Altmann"A comprehensive analysis of methods for assessing polygenic burden on Alzheimer’s disease pathology and risk beyond APOE"
2019Richard Dinga"Evaluating the evidence for biotypes of depression: Methodological replication and extension of Drysdale et al. "
2018Benedikt Sundermann"Diagnostic classification of unipolar depression based on resting-state functional connectivity MRI: effects of generalization to a diverse sample"
2017Wouter Boekel"A purely confirmatory replication study of structural brain-behavior correlations"

History

The award was originally conceived by Chris Gorgolewski as an attempt to elevate the status of replication studies, which were often considered not as prestigious as other scientific activities. Researchers focusing too much on novel discoveries instead of scrutinizing previously published findings was big contribution to reproducibility crisis in psychology.
The award has increased the likelihood of members of the neuroimaging community to conduct and disseminate results of replication studies and the procedure of running the award has been made publicly available in hope other academic communities could implement similar awards.