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Sean Grant1,2, Evan Mayo-Wilson3,4, Sina Kianersi4,5
1HEDCO Institute for Evidence-Based Educational Practice, College of Education, University of Oregon, OR, 97403-1215, Eugene, USA. spgrant@uoregon.edu.
Summary
Most journals fail to implement open science standards, undermining evidence-based policy. Improving transparency and openness promotion (TOP) guidelines in journals can enhance research trustworthiness and reduce false positives.
Area of Science:
- Research integrity and scientific publishing
- Evidence-based policy and intervention research
Background:
- Evidence-based policy relies on intervention research, often published in peer-reviewed journals.
- Detrimental research practices in closed science lead to inflated false-positives and effect sizes.
- Open science standards, like Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) guidelines, can improve research trustworthiness.
Purpose of the Study:
- To evaluate the implementation of TOP guidelines across 339 journals used for evidence-based policymaking.
- To assess the extent to which journals adopt open science practices to enhance research reliability.
Main Methods:
- Systematic evaluation of journal policies (instructions to authors), procedures (submission systems), and practices (published articles).
- Assessed the implementation of each of the ten open science standards within the TOP guidelines.
Main Results:
- Most journals have not implemented the majority of the ten open science standards.
- Journals that did implement standards often encouraged rather than required open science practices.
- Limited adoption of TOP guidelines was observed in journal policies, procedures, and published research.
Conclusions:
- Journals show low implementation rates of crucial open science standards.
- Enhanced adoption of TOP guidelines by journals is necessary to improve the trustworthiness of intervention research.
- Strengthening journal policies and practices is vital for safeguarding evidence-based policy decisions.
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