Open Science

State of open science in cancer research

Purpose This study has been focused on assessing the Open Science scenario of cancer research during the period 2011–2021, in terms of the derived scientific publications and raw data dissemination. Methods A cancer search equation was executed in …

Statistical Procedures and the Justification of Knowledge in Psychological Science

Justification, in the vernacular language of philosophy of science, refers to the evaluation, defense, and confirmation of claims of truth. In this article, we examine some aspects of the rhetoric of justification, which in part draws on statistical …

Strong inference

certain systematic methods of scientific thinking may produce much more rapid progress than others.

Study Preregistration: An Evaluation of a Method for Transparent Reporting

Study preregistration promotes transparency in scientific research by making a clear distinction between a priori and post hoc procedures or analyses. Management and applied psychology have not embraced preregistration in the way other closely …

Teaching and Mentoring Open Science

A syllabi about mentoring and teaching open science

Ten Simple Rules for the Care and Feeding of Scientific Data

A paper about ten Simple Rules for the Care and Feeding of Scientific Data

The 52 symptoms of major depression: Lack of content overlap among seven common depression scales

Depression severity is assessed in numerous research disciplines, ranging from the social sciences to genetics, and used as a dependent variable, predictor, covariate, or to enroll participants. The routine practice is to assess depression severity …

The Baby Factory: Difficult Research Objects, Disciplinary Standards, and the Production of Statistical Significance

Science studies scholars have shown that the management of natural complexity in lab settings is accomplished through a mixture of technological standardization and tacit knowledge by lab workers. Yet these strategies are not available to researchers …

The benefits of preregistration for hypothesis-driven bilingualism research

Preregistration is an open science practice that requires the specification of research hypotheses and analysis plans before the data are inspected. Here, we discuss the benefits of preregistration for hypothesis-driven, confirmatory bilingualism …

The challenges of open data sharing for qualitative researchers

‘Open Science’ advocates for open access to scientific research, as well as sharing data, analysis plans and code in order to enable replication of results. However, these requirements typically fail to account for methodological differences between …