Concerns regarding "Decoding the elite soccer player's psychological profile"
The datasets underlying the original publication (hereafter “Bonetti et al.”) are available for download at the GitHub repository https://github.com/leonardob92/Soccer_PsychologicalProfile.git. They exhibit many unusual features that are unlikely to be observed in authentic data.
Code for reproducing the below analyses can be found at https://github.com/kristjanmoore/bonetti-reanalysis .
This paper received a response:
Bonetti L., T. Vestberg, R. Jafari, D. Seghezzi, M. Ingvar, M.L. Kringelbach, A. Filgueiras, P. Petrovic. 2026. A refined analysis of the datasets used in Decoding the elite soccer player's psychological profile. I4R Discussion Paper Series No. 312. Institute for Replication.