Posts tagged with 'transparency'

Q&A with Benjamin Korman: Sharing Research on Participatory Digital Media in Japanese Museums
August 18th, 2025
When Benjamin Korman began his graduate research at Tokyo University of the Arts, he set out to explore how museums in Japan integrate digital media—even though he’d initially...
Tags: Transparency, OSF, Project Management, Research Best Practices, Transparency & Reproducibility, Open Science, Education
Introducing the Simulation Studies Preregistration Template: Q&A with Björn S. Siepe, František Bartoš, and Samuel Pawel
July 29th, 2025
In 2023, COS launched a Preregistration Template Evaluation Working Group to help curate, evaluate, and promote high-quality preregistration templates that reflect the needs of...
Tags: Transparency, Preregistration, OSF, Project Management, Research Best Practices, Transparency & Reproducibility, Open Science, Simulation Studies
A Shared Challenge: Evaluating AI’s Impact on Open Research Infrastructure
July 25th, 2025
At a time when transparency and trust in research are more important than ever, the Open Science Framework (OSF) enables researchers to share the plans, data, materials, code,...
Tags: Transparency, Infrastructure, OSF, Open Science, AI
Q&A with Amélie Godefroidt: Building Trust and Transparency in Complex, Sensitive Research
July 16th, 2025
Open science practices are embedded throughout Amélie Godefroidt’s research, which explores public opinion during and after wars, civil conflicts, and terrorist attacks. As a...
Tags: Transparency, Preregistration, OSF, Project Management, Research Best Practices, Transparency & Reproducibility, Open Science, Education
Advancing Data-Driven Policy: How Justice Innovation Lab Uses OSF to Strengthen Randomized Clinical Trial Design and Transparency
June 23rd, 2025
The Justice Innovation Lab (JIL) is a nonprofit organization that works to create a more equitable, effective, and fair criminal justice system by developing and implementing...
Tags: Transparency, Preregistration, OSF, Community, Project Management, Research Best Practices, Transparency & Reproducibility, Open Science, Policy, Policy Advocacy
Strengthening Research Integrity: Trust Markers in the Fight Against Paper Mills
Building Trust and Strengthening Research Integrity: Trust Markers in the Fight Against Paper Mills
May 28th, 2025
Paper mills—covert organizations that provide low-quality or fabricated manuscripts to paying clients—pose a growing threat to the integrity of academic publishing. These...
Tags: Scholarly Publishing, Transparency, Reproducibility, Community, Scholarly Communication
Q&A with Researcher Don Moore: Studying Overconfidence, Practicing Transparency
May 19th, 2025
Don Moore studies overconfidence in its many forms—including when people overestimate their abilities, their knowledge, or how they compare to others. This type of bias can show...
Tags: Transparency, Preregistration, OSF, Community, Research Best Practices, Transparency & Reproducibility, Open Science
Measuring Research Transparency
May 17th, 2022
Measuring the transparency and credibility of research is fundamental to our mission. By having measures of transparency and credibility we can learn about the current state of...
Tags: Transparency, Community, TOP Guidelines, Open Science
Improvements to TOP Factor
February 28th, 2022
An enhanced TOP Factor journal interface has been released, which provides a more interactive view of journal ratings, increases transparency of the scoring process, and provides...
Tags: Transparency, TOP, TOP Guidelines, Industry
Transform and support the research lifecycle with transparency
Preregistration: A Plan for Communities, Not a Prison for Researchers
October 20th, 2021
Preregistration is the process of specifying key study and analysis details and decisions before conducting the experiment. The main goal of preregistering one’s research is to...
Tags: Transparency, Preregistration, Community, Culture Change, OSF Registries

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