Making Science Transparent By Default; Introducing the TOP Statement
Year: 2018
Type: preprint
Abstract: In order to increase the replicability of scientific work, the scientific community has called for practices designed to increase the transparency of research (McNutt, 2014; Nosek et al., 2015). The validity of a scientific claim depends not on the reputation of those making the claim, the venue in which the claim is made, or the novelty of the result, but rather on the empirical evidence provided by the underlying data and methods. Proper evaluation of the merits of scientific findings requires availability of the methods, materials, and data and the reasoned argument that serve as the basis for the published conclusions (Claerbout and Karrenbach 1992; Donoho et al 2009; Stodden et al 2013; Borwein et al 2013; Munafò et al, 2017). Wide and growing support for these principles (see, for example, signatories to Declaration on Research Assessment, DORA, https://sfdora.org/, and the Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines https://cos.io/our-services/top-guidelines/) must be coupled with guidelines to increase open sharing of data and research materials, use of reporting guidelines, preregistration, and replication. We propose that, going forward, authors of all scientific articles disclose the availability and location of all research items, including data, materials, and code, related to their published articles in what we will refer to as a TOP Statement.
Source: OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints)
Authors: Veronique Kiermer, Anne Tsui, Tom Appleyard, Alison Mudditt, Simine Vazire, Maryann Elizabeth Martone, Jeffrey R. Spies, David Thomas Mellor, Brian A. Nosek, Carolyn Shore, Mark Parsons, Carole J. Lee, Mark Patterson, Aki MacFarlane, Stephen Curry, Len Freedman, Brooks Hanson, Belinda Orland, Heather Joseph, Solange Santos, IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg, Victoria Stodden, David Moher, Daniel J. Simons, Alan Kraut, Alexander C. DeHaven, Chris Graf, Sean Grant, Meredith McPhail, Deborah Sweet, Matthew Spitzer, Marcia McNutt, Evan Mayo-Wilson, Sowmya Swaminathan, Bobbie Spellman, Eric Eich, Michael Clarke, Timothy H. Parker, Josh Dahl, Todd Carpenter, Bianca Kramer, Maryrose Franko, Sarah Brookhart, Roshan Kumar Karn
Language: English
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7160476252