The Peer Reviewers' Openness Initiative: incentivizing open research practices through peer review

Morey, Richard D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9220-3179, Chambers, Christopher D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6058-4114, Etchells, Peter J., Harris, Christine R., Hoekstra, Rink, Lakens, Daniël, Lewandowsky, Stephan, Morey, Candice Coker ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7644-5239, Newman, Daniel P., Schönbrodt, Felix D., Vanpaemel, Wolf, Wagenmakers, Eric-Jan and Zwaan, Rolf A. 2016. The Peer Reviewers' Openness Initiative: incentivizing open research practices through peer review. Royal Society Open Science 3 (1) , 150547. 10.1098/rsos.150547

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Abstract

Openness is one of the central values of science. Open scientific practices such as sharing data, materials and analysis scripts alongside published articles have many benefits, including easier replication and extension studies, increased availability of data for theory-building and meta-analysis, and increased possibility of review and collaboration even after a paper has been published. Although modern information technology makes sharing easier than ever before, uptake of open practices had been slow. We suggest this might be in part due to a social dilemma arising from misaligned incentives and propose a specific, concrete mechanism—reviewers withholding comprehensive review—to achieve the goal of creating the expectation of open practices as a matter of scientific principle.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Subjects:	A General Works > AZ History of Scholarship The Humanities
Publisher:	The Royal Society
ISSN:	2054-5703
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Date of Acceptance:	1 December 2015
Last Modified:	05 May 2023 12:36
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/85057

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