Opening Pandora’s Box: Peeking inside Psychology’s data sharing practices, and seven recommendations for change

Autor: John N. Towse, David A. Ellis, Andrea Towse
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Open science
Psychological science
PsyArXiv|Meta-science
050109 social psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Transparency
Article
03 medical and health sciences
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Meta research
Meta-research
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
General Psychology
030304 developmental biology
bepress|Life Sciences|Research Methods in Life Sciences
bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Psychology
0303 health sciences
Public data sharing
Information Dissemination
business.industry
05 social sciences
Public relations
Research Personnel
Reproducibility
Data sharing
PsyArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences
Open data
Research Design
PsyArXiv|Social and Behavioral Sciences|Psychology
other
bepress|Social and Behavioral Sciences
Psychology (miscellaneous)
business
Zdroj: Behavior Research Methods
ISSN: 1554-3528
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-020-01486-1
Popis: Open data-sharing is a valuable practice that ought to enhance the impact, reach, and transparency of a research project. While widely advocated by many researchers and mandated by some journals and funding agencies, little is known about detailed practices across psychological science. In a pre-registered study, we show that overall, few research papers directly link to available data in many, though not all, journals. Most importantly, even where open data can be identified, the majority of these lacked completeness and reusability—conclusions that closely mirror those reported outside of Psychology. Exploring the reasons behind these findings, we offer seven specific recommendations for engineering and incentivizing improved practices, so that the potential of open data can be better realized across psychology and social science more generally. Supplementary Information The online version of this article (10.3758/s13428-020-01486-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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