Remco Heesen works as an academic philosopher at the University of Western Australia and the University of Groningen. His research analyzes the social structure of science using a combination of methods from philosophy, economics, mathematics, and statistics. His recent work focuses on the epistemic consequences of scientists’ decisions regarding journal publications. How and why do scientists choose to share a given result rather than keeping it secret? How do scientists make the tradeoff between speed and accuracy in deciding how long to work on a project before attempting to publish it? What are the epistemic effects of revealing to journal editors identifying information about the authors of submitted papers? How can peer review be biased even when individual editors and reviewers are not biased? What role does peer review play in the social structure of science, and how can this be improved?