Open Data and Materials

Editorial: Introducing Surgery Open Science

We live in an exciting, dynamic time for science, medicine, and publication. Rapid technological and clinical advances are being disseminated more rapidly than ever before imagined. In this milieu, Elsevier is very pleased to bring you a new surgical …

OpenSAFELY: A platform for analysing electronic health records designed for reproducible research

Electronic health records (EHRs) and other administrative health data are increasingly used in research to generate evidence on the effectiveness, safety, and utilisation of medical products and services, and to inform public health guidance and …

“I’m telling you my story, not publishing a blog”: Considerations and suggestions on data sharing in qualitative health psychology research on sensitive topics

Qualitative research plays a pivotal role in health psychology, offering insights into the intricacies of health-related issues. However, the specificity of qualitative methodology presents challenges in adhering to standard open science principles, …

10 Things for Curating Reproducible and FAIR Research

10 Things for Curating Reproducible and FAIR Research (CURE-FAIR) provides standards-based guidelines to follow CURE-FAIR best practices with regards to publishing and archiving computationally reproducible studies, including the associated …

1Economics 270D: Research Transparency Methods in the Social Sciences

This course coversa range of approachesthat aim to enhance the transparency and reproducibility of social science research. It is appropriate for Ph.D. students in social science disciplines and related fields.

66th Helmholtz Open Science Online Seminar

In September 2022 the Helmholtz Association adopted a new Open Science Policy. The policy stipulates that scholarly publications, research data, and research software are published openly in Helmholtz, Germany's largest research performing …

A call for open science in forensics

The modern canon of open science consists of five “schools of thought” that justify unfettered access to the fruits of scientific research: i) public engagement, ii) democratic right of access, iii) efficiency of knowledge gain, iv) shared …

A cautionary note on aggregation in educational psychology and beyond

This article addresses aggregation as a fundamental practice in educational psychology and ties it into the idiographic/nomothetic distinction, that is, distinguishing between studying what once was and studying what always is. I address the …

A community-endorsed open-source lexicon for contrast agent–based perfusion MRI: A consensus guidelines report from the ISMRM Open Science Initiative for Perfusion Imaging (OSIPI)

This manuscript describes the ISMRM OSIPI (Open Science Initiative for Perfusion Imaging) lexicon for dynamic contrast-enhanced and dynamic susceptibility-contrast MRI. The lexicon was developed by Taskforce 4.2 of OSIPI to provide standardized …

A dataset without a code book: ethnography and open science

This paper reflects upon calls for “open data” in ethnography, drawing on our experiences doing research on sexual violence. The core claim of this paper is not that open data is undesirable; it is that there is a lot we must know before we presume …