Group calls for more transparency in science research, announces guidelines
abernard102@gmail.com 2015-06-27
Summary:
"What will these new guidelines mean in practice? We hope to see journals take active steps to increase their commitment to practices such as sharing of data and analysis code, the support of replication studies, and the pre-registration of study protocols (all of which are rare in many sciences). For instance, in 2013 we called for journals in the life sciences to offer a new format of journal article called a Registered Report, which combats research bias by agreeing to publish articles before the results of experiments are known. Registered Reports were originally launched at the journals Cortex and Perspectives on Psychological Science – they have since been adopted by journals across the life, social and physical sciences and feature prominently in the TOP guidelines ..."