Dr. Eric Eich and the crusade for open science | Department of Psychology

"UBC Psychology Professor Eric Eich has been with the University of British Columbia since 1983. During his time at UBC, Dr. Eich has served as Psychology Department Head, was named a Distinguished University Scholar, and received the Killam Research Prize and the Knox Master Teacher award, as well as many other honours. He also served as editor-in-chief of Psychological Science from January 2012 until June 2015. Now, he’s tackling a new challenge: addressing what he identifies as a crisis in psychology and in science at large. Openness, transparency, and reproducibility, Eich feels, are conspicuously lacking from the scientific research culture. He is not alone in this belief. Dr. Eich Along with an astounding thirty-eight other co-authors, Eich recently published a paper in Science entitled 'Promoting an open research culture'. The paper outlines the new Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines, which were created with the aim to 'translate scientific norms and values into concrete actions and change the current incentive structures to guide researchers’ behaviour toward more openness'. The guidelines include standards that apply to eight different aspects of scientific research: citation, replication, design, research materials, data sharing, analytic methods, preregistration of studies, and preregistration of analysis plans ..."