A guide for social science journal editors on easing into open science

Priya Silverstein; Colin Elman; Amanda Montoya; Barbara McGillivray; Charlotte R Pennington; Chase H Harrison; Crystal N Steltenpohl; Jan Philipp Röer; Katherine S Corker; Lisa M Charron; Mahmoud Elsherif; Mario Malicki; Rachel Hayes-Harb; Sandra Grinschgl; Tess Neal; Thomas Rhys Evans; Veli-Matti Karhulahti; William L D Krenzer; Anabel Belaus; David Moreau; Debora I Burin; Elizabeth Chin; Esther Plomp; Evan Mayo-Wilson; Jared Lyle; Jonathan M Adler; Julia G Bottesini; Katherine M Lawson; Kathleen Schmidt; Kyrani Reneau; Lars Vilhuber; Ludo Waltman; Morton Ann Gernsbacher; Paul E Plonski; Sakshi Ghai; Sean Grant; Thu-Mai Christian; William Ngiam; Moin Syed

doi:10.1186/s41073-023-00141-5

A guide for social science journal editors on easing into open science

Res Integr Peer Rev. 2024 Feb 16;9(1):2. doi: 10.1186/s41073-023-00141-5.

Authors

Priya Silverstein^{1

2}, Colin Elman³, Amanda Montoya⁴, Barbara McGillivray⁵, Charlotte R Pennington⁶, Chase H Harrison⁷, Crystal N Steltenpohl⁸, Jan Philipp Röer⁹, Katherine S Corker¹⁰, Lisa M Charron^{11

12}, Mahmoud Elsherif¹³, Mario Malicki^{14

15

16}, Rachel Hayes-Harb¹⁷, Sandra Grinschgl¹⁸, Tess Neal^{19

20}, Thomas Rhys Evans²¹, Veli-Matti Karhulahti²², William L D Krenzer²³, Anabel Belaus²⁴, David Moreau²⁵, Debora I Burin^{26

27}, Elizabeth Chin²⁸, Esther Plomp^{29

30}, Evan Mayo-Wilson³¹, Jared Lyle³², Jonathan M Adler³³, Julia G Bottesini³, Katherine M Lawson³⁴, Kathleen Schmidt³⁵, Kyrani Reneau³², Lars Vilhuber³⁶, Ludo Waltman³⁷, Morton Ann Gernsbacher³⁸, Paul E Plonski³⁹, Sakshi Ghai⁴⁰, Sean Grant⁴¹, Thu-Mai Christian⁴², William Ngiam^{43

44}, Moin Syed⁴⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology, Ashland University, Ashland, USA. psilver2@ashland.edu.
² Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education, Preston, UK. psilver2@ashland.edu.
³ Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA.
⁴ Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
⁵ Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, London, UK.
⁶ School of Psychology, College of Health & Life Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, UK.
⁷ Department of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.
⁸ Dartmouth Center for Program Design and Evaluation, Hanover, USA.
⁹ Department of Psychology and Psychotherapy, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany.
¹⁰ Department of Psychology, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, USA.
¹¹ American Family Insurance Data Science Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA.
¹² Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA.
¹³ Department of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
¹⁴ Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford, Stanford University, Stanford, USA.
¹⁵ Stanford Program On Research Rigor and Reproducibility, Stanford University, Stanford, USA.
¹⁶ Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, USA.
¹⁷ Department of Linguistics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA.
¹⁸ Department of Psychology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
¹⁹ Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames, USA.
²⁰ School of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA.
²¹ School of Human Sciences and Institute for Lifecourse Development, University of Greenwich, London, UK.
²² Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland.
²³ Office of Scientific Integrity, Duke University, Durham, USA.
²⁴ National Agency for Scientific and Technological Promotion, Córdoba, Argentina.
²⁵ School of Psychology and Centre for Brain Research, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
²⁶ Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
²⁷ CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
²⁸ ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, USA.
²⁹ Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands.
³⁰ The, The Alan Turing Institute, Turing Way, London, UK.
³¹ Department of Epidemiology, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, USA.
³² Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
³³ Olin College of Engineering, Needham, USA.
³⁴ Department of Psychology, Rhodes College, Memphis, USA.
³⁵ Department of Psychology, Ashland University, Ashland, USA.
³⁶ Economics Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA.
³⁷ Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands.
³⁸ Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA.
³⁹ Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, USA.
⁴⁰ Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, USA.
⁴¹ HEDCO Institute for Evidence-Based Practice, College of Education, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA.
⁴² Odum Institute for Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA.
⁴³ Institute of Mind and Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA.
⁴⁴ Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA.
⁴⁵ Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.

Abstract

Journal editors have a large amount of power to advance open science in their respective fields by incentivising and mandating open policies and practices at their journals. The Data PASS Journal Editors Discussion Interface (JEDI, an online community for social science journal editors: www.dpjedi.org ) has collated several resources on embedding open science in journal editing ( www.dpjedi.org/resources ). However, it can be overwhelming as an editor new to open science practices to know where to start. For this reason, we created a guide for journal editors on how to get started with open science. The guide outlines steps that editors can take to implement open policies and practices within their journal, and goes through the what, why, how, and worries of each policy and practice. This manuscript introduces and summarizes the guide (full guide: https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/hstcx ).

Keywords: Journal editing; Open science; Peer review; Scholarly publishing.

Publication types

Letter

Grants and funding

2032661/National Science Foundation