All parties associated in clinical trials—patients, doctors, scientists, industry—share a common desire for a vigorous clinical research enterprise that brings innovations to patients as quickly as possible. However, recent scandals in the UK and …
In order to teach Open and Reproducible Science effectively, educators need to make sense of almost a decade of literature, across several fields, and be informed about ongoing (and often dynamic) debates. This is a tall ask for most educators. So …
In psychology, preregistration is the most widely used method to ensure the confirmatory status of analyses. However, the method has disadvantages: Not only is it perceived as effortful and time-consuming, but reasonable deviations from the analysis …
Preregistration forces researchers to front-load a lot of decision-making to an early stage of a project. Choosing which preregistration platform to use is one of those early decisions, and because a preregistration cannot be moved, that choice is …
Context: As of 2005, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors required investigators to register their trials prior to participant enrollment as a precondition for publishing the trial's findings in member journals. Objective: To assess …
These lectures and tutorials introduce students to the scientific process and open research practices, in order to ensure that psychological research is as rigorous, transparent and, ultimately, as reproducible as possible. We also consider …
Metascience is the science of science. Critical metascience takes a step back to question some common assumptions, approaches, problems, and solutions in metascience. Hence, it has also been described as meta-meta-science!
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Improving the usability of psychological research has been encouraged through practices such as prospectively registering research plans. Registering research aligns with the open-science movement, as the registration of research protocols in …