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UKRN

The UKRN primer series is designed to introduce a broad audience to important topics in open and reproducible scholarship. Each primer includes an overview of the topic in the introductory “What?” section, reasons for undertaking these practices in …

UKRN Open Research Primers

Open Research Action Plan, Data Sharing, Open Access, Open Code & Software, Open Resarch Awards, Preprints, Preregistration & Registered Reports

Update on the endorsement of CONSORT by high impact factor journals: a survey of journal “Instructions to Authors” in 2014

The CONsolidated Standards Of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) Statement provides a minimum standard set of items to be reported in published clinical trials; it has received widespread recognition within the biomedical publishing community. This research …

Use of the Journal Impact Factor in academic review, promotion, and tenure evaluations

The Journal Impact Factor (JIF) was originally designed to aid libraries in deciding which journals to index and purchase for their collections. Over the past few decades, however, it has become a relied upon metric used to evaluate research articles …

What incentives increase data sharing in health and medical research? A systematic review

The foundation of health and medical research is data. Data sharing facilitates the progress of research and strengthens science. Data sharing in research is widely discussed in the literature; however, there are seemingly no evidence-based …

What is replication?

Replications are inevitably different from the original studies. How do we decide whether something is a replication? The answer shifts the conception of replication from a boring, uncreative, housekeeping activity to an exciting, generative, vital …

What is statistical power

This video is the first in a series of videos related to the basics of power analyses. All materials shown in the video, as well as content from the other videos in the power analysis series can be found here: https://osf.io/a4xhr/

What is this thing called open science?

A general introduction to open scholarship.

Wide-Open: Accelerating public data release by automating detection of overdue datasets

Open data is a vital pillar of open science and a key enabler for reproducibility, data reuse, and novel discoveries. Enforcement of open-data policies, however, largely relies on manual efforts, which invariably lag behind the increasingly automated …

Workflow for Awarding Badges

Badges are a great way to signal that a journal values transparent research practices. Readers see the papers that have underlying data or methods available, colleagues see that norms are changing within a community and have ample opportunities to …
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