Care to share? Experimental evidence on code sharing behavior in the social sciences.

ABSTRACT: Transparency and peer control are cornerstones of good scientific practice and entail the replication and reproduction of findings. The feasibility of replications, however, hinges on the premise that original researchers make their data and research code publicly available. This applies in particular to large-N observational studies, where analysis code is complex and may involve several ambiguous analytical decisions. To investigate which specific factors influence researchers' code sharing behavior upon request, we emailed code requests to 1,206 authors who published research articles based on data from the European Social Survey between 2015 and 2020. In this preregistered multifactorial field experiment, we randomly varied three aspects of our code request's wording in a 2x4x2 factori

SUBMITTER: Krahmer D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10406284 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature