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Scott R Schroeder1, Laura Gaeta2, Mariam El Amin3
1Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY.
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research : JSLHR
|December 14, 2022
Summary
Communication sciences and disorders (CSD) journals show low adoption of open science practices. This study assessed Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Factors, finding minimal implementation of open science in CSD research.
Area of Science:
- Open science practices in scientific research.
- Communication sciences and disorders (CSD).
Background:
- Scientific fields are increasingly adopting transparent and open research practices to enhance credibility, reproducibility, and clinical utility.
- Open science includes public data availability and preregistration of hypotheses and analyses.
- Journals play a crucial role in promoting open science by encouraging or requiring these practices.
Purpose of the Study:
- To quantitatively assess the extent to which communication sciences and disorders (CSD) journals encourage or require open science practices.
- To evaluate CSD journals using the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Factor metric.
Main Methods:
- The Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Factor metric was used to assess 34 CSD journals and journals in related fields.
- TOP Factors measure the implementation of 10 open science practices, with a maximum possible score of 29 points.
Main Results:
- CSD journals exhibited very low average TOP Factors (M = 1.4, range: 0-8).
- Journals in related fields also showed low scores: Psychology (M = 4.0), Rehabilitation (M = 3.2), Linguistics (M = 1.7), and Education (M = 1.6).
- Psychology and Rehabilitation journals had higher TOP Factor scores compared to CSD journals.
Conclusions:
- CSD journals currently demonstrate low levels of encouraging or requiring open science practices.
- This limited adoption may hinder the widespread implementation of open science in the field.
- Further initiatives are needed to promote open science practices within CSD research and publishing.
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