Stanford University, United States.
Stanford University, United States.
Soc Sci Res. 2022 Sep;107:102770. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2022.102770. Epub 2022 Jul 12.
Worries about a "credibility crisis" besieging science have ignited interest in research transparency and reproducibility as ways of restoring trust in published research. For quantitative social science, advances in transparency and reproducibility can be seen as a set of developments whose trajectory predates the recent alarm. We discuss several of these developments, including preregistration, data-sharing, formal infrastructure in the form of resources and policies, open access to research, and specificity regarding research contributions. We also discuss the spillovers of this predominantly quantitative effort towards transparency for qualitative research. We conclude by emphasizing the importance of mutual accountability for effective science, the essential role of openness for this accountability, and the importance of scholarly inclusiveness in figuring out the best ways for openness to be accomplished in practice.
对困扰科学界的“可信度危机”的担忧，促使人们关注研究透明度和可重复性，以期恢复对已发表研究的信任。对于定量社会科学而言，透明度和可重复性方面的进展可以被视为一系列发展的结果，而这些发展早于最近的警报。我们讨论了其中的几个发展，包括预注册、数据共享、以资源和政策形式的正式基础设施、研究的开放获取以及研究贡献的具体性。我们还讨论了这种主要针对定量研究的透明度的努力对定性研究的溢出效应。最后，我们强调了有效科学的相互问责制的重要性、开放性在这种问责制中的关键作用，以及学术包容性在确定开放性实际实施方式方面的重要性。
