8 articles
All articlesSarahanne Field, Noah van Dongen & Leo Tiokhin
The scientific community has entered a challenging era, as originally noted by Wagenmakers (2012) . High-profile instances of fraud, failures to replicate foundational studies in psychology, and admissions of research misconduct (John et al., 2012) cast a shadow over the field of psychology…
Maximilian Linde, Merle-Marie Pittelkow, Nina R. Schwarzbach & Don van Ravenzwaaij
Practicing open science can have benefits for the career prospects of individual researchers or labs through higher quality work and increased chances of publication. However, being an outspoken advocate of open science might also indirectly benefit individual scientific careers, in the form of…
Erkan O. Buzbas & Berna Devezer
A core problem that has been addressed in the scientific reform movement so far is the low rates of reproducibility of research results. Mainstream reform literature has aimed at increasing reproducibility rates by implementing procedural changes in research practice and scientific policy. At the…
Arielle Bennett, Daniel Garside, Cassandra Gould van Praag, Thomas J. Hostler, Ismael Kherroubi Garcia, Esther Plomp, Antonio Schettino, Samantha Teplitzky & Hao Ye
The Scientific Reform Movement has highlighted the need for large research teams with diverse skills. This has necessitated the growth of professional team infrastructure roles (TIRs) who support research through specialised skills, but do not have primary responsibility for conceiving or leading…
Crystal N. Steltenpohl, Hilary Lustick, Melanie S. Meyer, Lindsay Ellis Lee, Sondra M. Stegenga, Laurel Standiford Reyes & Rachel L. Renbarger
Discussions around transparency in open science focus primarily on sharing data, materials, and coding schemes, especially as these practices relate to reproducibility. This fairly quantitative perspective of transparency does not align with all scientific methodologies. Indeed, qualitative…
Robert T. Thibault, Charlotte R. Pennington & Marcus R. Munafò
Clinical trials are routinely preregistered. In psychology and the social sciences, however, only a small percentage of studies are preregistered, and those preregistrations often contain ambiguities. As advocates strive for broader uptake and effective use of preregistration, they can benefit from…
Thomas J. Hostler
It is acknowledged that conducting open research requires additional time and effort compared to conducting ‘closed’ research. However, this additional work is often discussed only in abstract terms, a discourse which ignores the practicalities of how researchers are expected to find the time to…
Mark Rubin
Metascientists have studied questionable research practices in science. The present article considers the parallel concept of questionable metascience practices (QMPs). A QMP is a research practice, assumption, or perspective that has been questioned by several commentators as being potentially…
