UQ leads the way in Open Science - UQ News - The University of Queensland, Australia

A global scientific leaderboard has ranked researchers at The University of Queensland number one in the Open Science movement.

Open Science is a new approach to research based on transparency and accessibility that promotes sharing data and tools.

One of its key elements is preregistration of experiments, where researchers submit details of their study methods before they begin work.

UQ is top of the Open Science Framework’s Preregistration Leaderboard of 528 international universities, which includes Oxford, Stanford and Harvard.

UQ School of Psychology’s Associate Professor Jason Tangen said Open Science and preregistration emerged due to a problem which came to light in 2015.