Transparency

A Unified Framework to Quantify the Credibility of Scientific Findings

Societies invest in scientific studies to better understand the world and attempt to harness such improved understanding to address pressing societal problems. Published research, however, can be useful for theory or application only if it is …

Capstone: Advanced General

How do psychologists determine what is true and what is false about human behavior, affect, and cognition? The question encompasses more than we can know from a single study or even a single research paper, and the issues run deeper than just …

Effect of open peer review on quality of reviews and on reviewers'recommendations: a randomised trial

Objectives: To examine the effect on peer review of asking reviewers to have their identity revealed to the authors of the paper. Design: Randomised trial. Consecutive eligible papers were sent to two reviewers who were randomised to have their …

Eleven Strategies for Making Reproducible Research and Open Science Training the Norm at Research Institutions

Across disciplines, researchers increasingly recognize that open science and reproducible research practices may accelerate scientific progress by allowing others to reuse research outputs and by promoting rigorous research that is more likely to …

Equity, transparency, and accountability: Open science for the 21st century

Knowledge is essential to saving lives and improving wellbeing. The term open science has been applied to improving the transparency of knowledge generation, but open science also has the potential to address many of the problems of inequity, …

Evaluation of Transparency and Openness Guidelines in Physical Therapy Journals

Objective The goals of this study were to evaluate the extent that physical therapy journals support open science research practices by adhering to the Transparency and Openness Promotion guidelines and to assess the relationship between journal …

Exploring Pre-registration and Pre-analysis Plans for Qualitative Inference

In recent years, the discipline of political science has experienced demands and moves toward greater research transparency. While in quantitative research increased transparency through replication has become a fairly accepted convention, in …

Good clinical practice improves rigor and transparency: Lessons from the ACTIVE trial

Clinical trials are governed by principles of good clinical practice (GCP), which can strengthen the achievement of rigor, reproducibility, and transparency in scientific research. Rigor, reproducibility, and transparency are key for producing …

Graduate Research Methods

Completion of this course will provide a foundation for the practice of science. We will wrestle with the fundamental issues for designing and executing a program of research, and in the interpretation and reporting of research results. The class is …

How to classify, detect, and manage univariate and multivariate outliers, with emphasis on pre-registration

Researchers often lack knowledge about how to deal with outliers when analyzing their data. Even more frequently, researchers do not pre-specify how they plan to manage outliers. In this paper we aim to improve research practices by outlining what …