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Preregistration in Complex Contexts: A Preregistration Template for the Application of Cognitive Models

In recent years, open science practices have become increasingly popular in psychology and related sciences. These practices aim to increase rigour and transparency in science as a potential response to the challenges posed by the replication crisis. …

Preregistration: Improve Research Rigor, Reduce Bias

In this webinar Professor Brian Nosek, Executive Director of the Center for Open Science (https://cos.io), outlines the practice of Preregistration and how it can aid in increasing the rigor and reproducibility of research. The webinar is co-hosted …

Presentations Given by Center for Open Science

A collection of slides for virtually all presentations given by Center for Open Science staff since its founding in 2013.

Public Availability of Published Research Data in High-Impact Journals

Background There is increasing interest to make primary data from published research publicly available. We aimed to assess the current status of making research data available in highly-cited journals across the scientific literature. Methods and …

Registered Reports Q&A

This webinar addresses questions related to writing, reviewing, editing, or funding a study using the Registered Report format, featuring Chris Chambers and ...

Registered reports: an early example and analysis

The recent ‘replication crisis’ in psychology has focused attention on ways of increasing methodological rigor within the behavioral sciences. Part of this work has involved promoting ‘Registered Reports’, wherein journals peer review papers prior to …

Releasing a preprint is associated with more attention and citations for the peer-reviewed article

Preprints in biology are becoming more popular, but only a small fraction of the articles published in peer-reviewed journals have previously been released as preprints. To examine whether releasing a preprint on bioRxiv was associated with the …

Risk of Bias in Reports of In Vivo Research: A Focus for Improvement

The reliability of experimental findings depends on the rigour of experimental design. Here we show limited reporting of measures to reduce the risk of bias in a random sample of life sciences publications, significantly lower reporting of …

SPARC Popular Resources

SPARC is a global coalition committed to making Open the default for research and education. SPARC empowers people to solve big problems and make new discoveries through the adoption of policies and practices that advance Open Access, Open Data, and …

Statistics with JASP and the Open Science Framework

This webinar will introduce the integration of JASP Statistical Software (https://jasp-stats.org/) with the Open Science Framework (OSF; https://osf.io). The OSF is a free, open source web application built to help researchers manage their workflows. …