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    Education level(s)
    College / Upper Division (Undergraduates)
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    Student
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    Applied Science, Social Science
    Language(s)
    English
    Cluster
    Replication Crisis and Credibility Revolution
    Last updated
    29 October 2026
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    Transparent science: A more credible, reproducible, and publishable way to do science

    By David Mellor, Simine Vazire, D. Lindsay

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    Level College / Upper Division (Undergraduates) · For Student · Language English

    Abstract

    This is an exciting time to be a psychological scientist. There is a major new movement that seeks to promote the credibility and replicability of psychological research by enhancing its transparency, with scholarly societies promoting the principles ( http://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/open-science) and groups formed specifically to advance that mission (see http://improvingpsych.org/ and https://cos.io for two examples). While relatively low rates of replicability among scientific findings (Begley & Ellis, 2012; OSC, 2015; Chang & Li 2015) inspired the existence of these groups, in this chapter we describe how striving to maximize transparency in your research can benefit both science and your career.

    Keywords Reproducibility Crisis and Credibility Revolution