Open Science

Scientific Utopia: I. Opening Scientific Communication

Existing norms for scientific communication are rooted in anachronistic practices of bygone eras making them needlessly inefficient. We outline a path that moves away from the existing model of scientific communication to improve the efficiency in …

Scientists’ Reputations Are Based on Getting It Right, Not Being Right

Replication is vital for increasing precision and accuracy of scientific claims. However, when replications “succeed” or “fail,” they could have reputational consequences for the claim’s originators. Surveys of United States adults (N = 4,786), …

Secondary Data Preregistration

Preregistration is the process of specifying project details, such as hypotheses, data collection procedures, and analytical decisions, prior to conducting a study. It is designed to make a clearer distinction between data-driven, exploratory work …

Shall we really do it again? The powerful concept of replication is neglected in the social sciences

Replication is one of the most important tools for the verification of facts within the empirical sciences. A detailed examination of the notion of replication reveals that there are many different meanings to this concept and the relevant …

Short, Sweet, and Problematic? The Rise of the Short Report in Psychological Science

Our field has witnessed a rapid increase in the appeal and prevalence of the short report format over the last two decades. In this article, we discuss both the benefits and drawbacks of the trend toward shorter and faster publications. Although the …

Small telescopes Detectability and the evaluation of replication results.

This article introduces a new approach for evaluating replication results. It combines effect-size estimation with hypothesis testing, assessing the extent to which the replication results are consistent with an effect size big enough to have been …

Social Sciences Research Methods Centre Replication Workshop

This workshop will introduce students to the process of reproducing published work. Replicating other scholars’ work is an essential tool for becoming familiar with methods, learning to select suitable models, and getting a chance to publish early …

Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Perspectives on Robust and Reliable Science

A paper about social, behavioural economic perspective on reproducible science

Springer Nature announces unified open code policy to better support open research practices

Springer Nature has introduced a new unified open code policy for its books and journals portfolios. The policy compliments the publisher's single data policy announced last year and is the latest step in its commitment to making it easier for …

Star wars: The empirics strike back

Using 50,000 tests published in the AER, JPE, and QJE, we identify a residual in the distribution of tests that cannot be explained solely by journals favoring rejection of the null hypothesis. We observe a two-humped camel shape with missing …