Replication Research

 

Registered Replication Reports in the Classroom

Background: Registered Reports are an emerging publication format, which emphasizes methodological rigor over results. Integrating this format into education allows one to teach research skills when data collection is infeasible. Objective: To …

Kinds of replication

In their article ‘Self-correction in science: The diagnostic and integrative motives for replication‘, David Peterson and Aaron Panofsky (2021) distinguish two kinds of replication: diagnostic and integrative replication. In this blog post we discuss …

Methods and results of studies on reporting guideline adherence are poorly reported: a meta-research study

We investigated recent meta-research studies on adherence to four reporting guidelines to determine the proportion that provided (1) an explanation for how adherence to guideline items was rated and (2) results from all included individual studies. …

Preregistering, transparency, and large samples boost psychology studies’ replication rate to nearly 90%

So-called “rigor-enhancing practices” suggest behavioral science can be reliable—but not everyone is convinced.

The logical structure of experiments lays the foundation for a theory of reproducibility

The scientific reform movement has proposed openness as a potential remedy to the putative reproducibility or replication crisis. However, the conceptual relationship among openness, replication experiments and results reproducibility has been …

Moving Toward Transparent, Open, and Reproducible Prevention Science: Introduction to the Special Issue

This editorial serves as a brief introduction to this special issue of Prevention Science, entitled “Transparency, Openness, and Reproducibility: Implications for the Field of Prevention Science.” The overall goal of this special issue is to …

Open Science Training Handbook

Github Repository for the Open Science Training Handbook

Repetitive research: a conceptual space and terminology of replication, reproduction, revision, reanalysis, reinvestigation and reuse in digital humanities

This article is motivated by the ‘reproducibility crisis’ that is being discussed intensely in fields such as Psychology or Biology but is also becoming increasingly relevant to Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing and Digital …

Claims about scientific rigour require rigour

Protzko et al.1 describe a project in which internal tests of pilot-tested hypotheses and independent replications embraced “rigour-enhancing practices” such as confirmatory tests, large sample sizes, preregistration and methodological transparency. …

Open Science interventions to improve reproducibility and replicability of research: a scoping review preprint

Various interventions – especially those related to open science – have been proposed to improve the reproducibility and replicability of scientific research. To assess whether and which interventions have been formally tested for their effectiveness …
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