Research Transparency Is on the Rise in Economics

2020 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 61-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Swanson ◽  
Garret Christensen ◽  
Rebecca Littman ◽  
David Birke ◽  
Edward Miguel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Sharing ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Science Practices ◽  
Steep Increase ◽  
Perceived Norms ◽  
Extensive Variation ◽  
Study Materials ◽  
Research Transparency

This study provides a first assessment of awareness of, attitudes toward, perceived norms regarding, and adoption of open science practices within a broadly representative sample of active economics researchers. We observe a steep increase in adoption over the last decade, with an accelerating trend: as of 2017, 93 percent of economists had used at least one such practice--including posting data, sharing study materials, and study pre-registration--rising from 33 percent a decade earlier. We document extensive variation in adoption across economics subfields. Notably, most economists appear to underestimate the trend toward research transparency in the discipline.

scholarly journals Evidence on Research Transparency in Economics

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-214
Author(s):  
Edward Miguel
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Science Practices ◽  
Radar Screen ◽  
Rapid Transition ◽  
Research Transparency ◽  
Journal Policies ◽  
Economics Research

A decade ago, the term “research transparency” was not on economists' radar screen, but in a few short years a scholarly movement has emerged to bring new open science practices, tools and norms into the mainstream of our discipline. The goal of this article is to lay out the evidence on the adoption of these approaches – in three specific areas: open data, pre-registration and pre-analysis plans, and journal policies – and, more tentatively, begin to assess their impacts on the quality and credibility of economics research. The evidence to date indicates that economics (and related quantitative social science fields) are in a period of rapid transition toward new transparency-enhancing norms. While solid data on the benefits of these practices in economics is still limited, in part due to their relatively recent adoption, there is growing reason to believe that critics' worst fears regarding onerous adoption costs have not been realized. Finally, the article presents a set of frontier questions and potential innovations.

scholarly journals Easing Into Open Science: A Guide for Graduate Students and Their Advisors

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ummul-Kiram Kathawalla ◽  
Priya Silverstein ◽  
Moin Syed
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Data Sharing ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Science Practices ◽  
Journal Clubs

This article provides a roadmap to assist graduate students and their advisors to engage in open science practices. We suggest eight open science practices that novice graduate students could begin adopting today. The topics we cover include journal clubs, project workflow, preprints, reproducible code, data sharing, transparent writing, preregistration, and registered reports.

scholarly journals Easing Into Open Science: A Guide for Graduate Students and Their Advisors

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ummul-Kiram Kathawalla ◽  
Priya Silverstein ◽  
Moin Syed
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Data Sharing ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Knowing How ◽  
Science Practices ◽  
Journal Clubs

This article provides a roadmap to assist graduate students and their advisors to engage in open science practices. We suggest eight open science practices that novice graduate students could begin adopting today. The topics we cover include journal clubs, project workflow, preprints, reproducible code, data sharing, transparent writing, preregistration, and registered reports. To address concerns about not knowing how to engage in open science practices, we provide a difficulty rating of each behavior (easy, medium, difficult), present them in order of suggested adoption, and follow the format of what, why, how, and worries. We give graduate students ideas on how to approach conversations with their advisors/collaborators, ideas on how to integrate open science practices within the graduate school framework, and specific resources on how to engage with each behavior. We emphasize that engaging in open science behaviors need not be an all or nothing approach, but rather graduate students can engage with any number of the behaviors outlined.

A How-To Guide for Open-Science Practices in Special Education Research

2021 ◽  
pp. 074193252110191
Author(s):  
Bryan G. Cook ◽  
Jesse I. Fleming ◽  
Sara A. Hart ◽  
Kathleen Lynne Lane ◽  
William J. Therrien ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Data Sharing ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Science Practices ◽  
Practical Guidelines

Open-science reforms, which aim to increase credibility and access of research, have the potential to benefit the research base in special education, as well as practice and policy informed by that research base. Awareness of open science is increasing among special education researchers. However, relatively few researchers in the field have experience using multiple open-science practices, and few practical guidelines or resources have been tailored to special education researchers to support their exploration and adoption of open science. In this article, we described and provided guidelines and resources for applying five core open-science practices—preregistration, registered reports, data sharing, materials sharing, and open-access publishing—in special education research.

scholarly journals Open science practices in clinical psychology journals: an audit study

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioana Cristea ◽  
NAUDET Florian ◽  
Daria Nutu ◽  
Claudio Gentili
Keyword(s):  
Data Sharing ◽  
Clinical Psychology ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Editorial Policies ◽  
Science Practices ◽  
Competing Interests ◽  
Great Heterogeneity ◽  
Journal Policies

This study examined if the most influential journals in clinical psychology have editorial policies implementing open science practices, such registration of the study before it was conducted, data sharing or disclosure of competing interests. Our findings suggest great heterogeneity in journal policies and scarce enforcement.

A How-To Guide for Open-Science Practices in Special Education Research

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan G. Cook ◽  
Jesse Irvan Fleming ◽  
Sara Ann Hart ◽  
Kathleen Lynne Lane ◽  
William Therrien ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Data Sharing ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Science Practices ◽  
Practical Guidelines

Open-science reforms, which aim to increase the credibility and access of research, have the potential to benefit the research base in special education, as well as practice and policy informed by that research base. Awareness of open science is increasing among special education researchers. However, relatively few researchers in the field have experience using multiple open-science practices, and few practical guidelines or resources have been tailored to special education researchers to support their exploration and adoption of open science. In this paper, we describe and provide guidelines and resources for applying five core open-science practices—preregistration, registered reports, data sharing, materials sharing, and open-access publishing—in special education research.

Introduction to the special section on Increasing Replicability, Transparency, and Openness in Clinical Psychology

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer L Tackett ◽  
Josh Miller
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Data Sharing ◽  
Clinical Psychology ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Clinical Psychologists ◽  
Existing Problems

As psychological research comes under increasing fire for the crisis of replicability, attention has turned to methods and practices that facilitate (or hinder) a more replicable and veridical body of empirical evidence. These trends have focused on “open science” initiatives, including an emphasis on replication, transparency, and data sharing. Despite this broader movement in psychology, clinical psychologists and psychiatrists have been largely absent from the broader conversation on documenting the extent of existing problems as well as generating solutions to problematic methods and practices in our area (Tackett et al., 2017). The goal of the current special section was to bring together psychopathology researchers to explore these and related areas as they pertain to the types of research conducted in clinical psychology and allied disciplines.

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