9th BITSS Annual Meeting – Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences

Call for Papers

We invite papers or long abstracts (250-500 words) in all aspects of meta-science, including but not limited to work that assesses scientific practice, evaluates the credibility of bodies of social science literature, presents new tools or strategies to improve research transparency and reproducibility, or evaluates the effectiveness of existing tools. Eligible submissions include completed projects, work in progress, and prospective work.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Pre-registration and the use of pre-analysis plans;
• Disclosure and transparent reporting;
• Ethical research;
• Replicability and reproducibility;
• Peer review;
• Methods for detecting and reducing publication bias or data mining;
• The intersection of openness and inclusion in science;
• Assessment of the validity or reproducibility of the literature;
• Meta-analysis and evidence synthesis;
• Open policy analysis;
• Transparency and reproducibility in COVID-19 or other policy-relevant research.

Timeline

Papers or long abstracts must be submitted by Sunday, November 15, 2020 (11:59 PM Pacific Time). Notifications of acceptance will be sent by November 23, 2020.