Estimating the Prevalence of Transparency and Reproducibility-Related Research Practices in Psychology (2014-2017).

ABSTRACT: Psychologists are navigating an unprecedented period of introspection about the credibility and utility of their discipline. Reform initiatives emphasize the benefits of transparency and reproducibility-related research practices; however, adoption across the psychology literature is unknown. Estimating the prevalence of such practices will help to gauge the collective impact of reform initiatives, track progress over time, and calibrate future efforts. To this end, we manually examined a random sample of 250 psychology articles published between 2014 and 2017. Over half of the articles were publicly available (154/237, 65%, 95% confidence interval [CI] = [59%, 71%]); however, sharing of research materials (26/183; 14%, 95% CI = [10%, 19%]), study protocols (0/188; 0%, 95% CI = [0%, 1%]),

SUBMITTER: Hardwicke TE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8785283 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature