Open Science

PathOS: Open Science Impact Pathways

PathOS is a Horizon Europe project aiming to collect concrete evidence of Open Science effects, study the pathways of Open Science practices, from input to output, outcome and impact, including the consideration of enabling factors and key barriers.

Paving the way for greater open science in sports and exercise medicine: navigating the barriers to adopting open and accessible data practices

Sport healthcare and performance support practitioners require data to inform clinical and performance decisions, identify risk factors and investigate the efficacy and effectiveness of different interventions. Data sharing is a key component to …

Peer-review practices of psychological journals: The fate of published articles, submitted again.

A growing interest in and concern about the adequacy and fairness of modern peer-review practices in publication and funding are apparent across a wide range of scientific disciplines. Although questions about reliability, accountability, reviewer …

Perspectives on Improving Methods in Psychological Science

A syllabus about open science

Point of View: How open science helps researchers succeed

Open access, open data, open source and other open scholarship practices are growing in popularity and necessity. However, widespread adoption of these practices has not yet been achieved. One reason is that researchers are uncertain about how …

Power failure: why small sample size undermines the reliability of neuroscience

A study with low statistical power has a reduced chance of detecting a true effect, but it is less well appreciated that low power also reduces the likelihood that a statistically significant result reflects a true effect. Here, we show that the …

Practical Solutions for Sharing Data and Materials From Psychological Research

Widespread sharing of data and materials (including displays and text- and video-based descriptions of experimental procedures) will improve the reproducibility of psychological science and accelerate the pace of discovery. In this article, we …

Pre-registration of clinical trials is associated with fewer positive findings

Pre-registration of clinical trials is associated with fewer positive findings

Preliminary analysis of COVID-19 academic information patterns: a call for open science in the times of closed borders

The Pandemic of COVID-19, an infectious disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 motivated the scientific community to work together in order to gather, organize, process and distribute data on the novel biomedical hazard. Here, we analyzed how the scientific …

Preregistration and Registered Reports in Sociology: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Other Considerations

Both within and outside of sociology, there are conversations about methods to reduce error and improve research quality—one such method is preregistration and its counterpart, registered reports. Preregistration is the process of detailing research …