id,title,description,date_created,date_modified,date_published,original_publication_date,publication_doi,provider,is_published,reviews_state,version,is_latest_version,preprint_doi,license,tags_list,tags_data,contributors_list,contributors_data,first_author,subjects_list,subjects_data,download_url,has_coi,conflict_of_interest_statement,has_data_links,has_prereg_links,prereg_links,prereg_link_info,last_updated
2ka8b_v1,Abolishing the Last Ontological Illusion_The Systemic Continuum Paradigm and the End of Artificiality,"Since Ludwig von Bertalanffy's (1968) inception of General System Theory, there has been a longstanding aspiration to achieve a unifying framework for understanding the organization of living, technological, and social systems. However, one historical obstacle has been the assumption that “natural” and “artificial” belong to separate ontological realms.

This manuscript introduces the Systemic Continuum Paradigm (SCP), a perspective positing that every form of organization — biological, technological, social, and even physical — belongs to one evolving continuum of emergent self-organization. Rather than viewing human systems as external to ""nature"", the SCP reframes the natural/artificial dichotomy as an anthropocentric bias.

The proposal includes empirical comparisons (e.g., coral reefs vs. urban systems), introduces four experimental metrics (ICS, CNS, MDO, SDI), and suggests that phenomena like gravity and dark energy may emerge from synergy thresholds. By integrating philosophy of science, systems theory, cybernetics, and complexity science, the SCP offers a meta-framework for reinterpreting ontological categories in light of emergent organization.",2025-04-17T01:20:17.942307,2025-04-17T21:07:42.917650,2025-04-17T21:05:53.639169,,,metaarxiv,1,accepted,1,1,https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/2ka8b_v1,CC-By Attribution 4.0 International,Artificial Intelligence; Autopoiesis; Complex Systems; Cybernetics; Dark Energy; Emergence; Epistemology; Intelligence Emergence; Natural vs Artificial; Ontology; Philosophy of Science; Self-Organization; Synergy; Systemic Continuum Paradigm; Systems Theory; Transdisciplinarity,"[""Artificial Intelligence"", ""Autopoiesis"", ""Complex Systems"", ""Cybernetics"", ""Dark Energy"", ""Emergence"", ""Epistemology"", ""Intelligence Emergence"", ""Natural vs Artificial"", ""Ontology"", ""Philosophy of Science"", ""Self-Organization"", ""Synergy"", ""Systemic Continuum Paradigm"", ""Systems Theory"", ""Transdisciplinarity""]",Ignacio Lucas de Leon Pontet,"[{""id"": ""dnbhx"", ""name"": ""Ignacio Lucas de Leon Pontet"", ""index"": 0, ""orcid"": ""0009-0009-9703-8331"", ""bibliographic"": true}]",Ignacio Lucas de Leon Pontet,Social and Behavioral Sciences; Physical Sciences and Mathematics; Psychology; Cognition and Perception; Other Physical Sciences and Mathematics; Theory and Philosophy,"[{""id"": ""5c81de83e48c52001647c154"", ""text"": ""Social and Behavioral Sciences""}, {""id"": ""5c81de84e48c52001647c176"", ""text"": ""Physical Sciences and Mathematics""}, {""id"": ""5c81de85e48c52001647c17e"", ""text"": ""Psychology""}, {""id"": ""5c81de85e48c52001647c196"", ""text"": ""Cognition and Perception""}, {""id"": ""5c81de87e48c52001647c1d2"", ""text"": ""Other Physical Sciences and Mathematics""}, {""id"": ""5c81de87e48c52001647c1d7"", ""text"": ""Theory and Philosophy""}]",https://osf.io/download/680057618b06155586c10b1e,0,,not_applicable,not_applicable,[],,2025-04-18T00:11:23.430176
cp4zf_v1,The Unprecedented Growth of COVID-19 Publications and the Academic Medical Librarian,"Objectives: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic an unprecedented amount of biomedical literature citations were added to PubMed. This bibliometric study will focus on the types of COVID-19 publications on PubMed such as clinical trials, meta analyses, systematic reviews, and randomized controlled trials and compare them to biomedical publications of all subject areas. Importantly this study will focus on preprint publications from the PubMed Central preprint pilot. Retraction rates have gone up in recent years therefore this study will show the rate of retraction of PubMed publications over the last 10 years. Additionally, it will compare the retraction rate for all PubMed publications to the retraction rate of COVID-19 publications. Lastly, this study will show the number of COVID-19 citations by country/territory for 30 top publishing countries/territories.
Methods: PubMed was searched in November 2022 or March 2023 for citations published from 2018-2022 using a comprehensive search strategy aimed at retrieving articles pertaining to COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2. Additional searches were used to determine how many articles were published annually, how many citations by country/territory, the different types of articles published, and the number of retracted publications. Then publication rates were plotted using Microsoft Excel. Percentages of different publication types and COVID-19 literature were calculated using Excel. Additionally, the percent increase of number of citations published from year to year was also calculated when relevant.
Results: The amount of biomedical literature citations published yearly that can be accessed on PubMed increased from 2018 to 2021 similarly the number of COVID-19 citations published yearly also increased from 2019 to 2021. Most publication types had an increase in the number of yearly publications from 2018 to 2021, a similar trend occurred in COVID-19 publications. The number of preprint citations increased from 2020 to 2021 and the total number of updated citations is 59%. The number of PubMed citations that were retracted yearly is less than 1% and currently peaked in 2019 at 0.09% of published papers. COVID-19 had fewer retracted papers with only 0.04% in both 2020 and 2021. Most countries had an increase in the number of citations from 2019 to 2021 plateauing in 2022, the exceptions were China, India, South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong who had more 2022 citations, a similar pattern was seen in COVID-19 citations.
Conclusion: The increases in yearly COVID-19 publications were more pronounced than the yearly biomedical publication increases on PubMed. There is not a higher percent of retracted papers in the COVID-19 subject area. Most countries had similar citation patterns for all subjects as well as COVID-19 with some exceptions.",2025-04-10T20:20:16.039013,2025-04-10T23:02:45.373335,2025-04-10T23:00:57.022653,,,metaarxiv,1,accepted,1,1,https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/cp4zf_v1,CC-By Attribution 4.0 International,COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; bibliometrics,"[""COVID-19"", ""SARS-CoV-2"", ""bibliometrics""]",Leah Everitt; Paul Fontelo,"[{""id"": ""pjfsq"", ""name"": ""Leah Everitt"", ""index"": 0, ""orcid"": ""0000-0003-0198-2512"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""ksqe4"", ""name"": ""Paul Fontelo"", ""index"": 1, ""orcid"": null, ""bibliographic"": true}]",Leah Everitt,Medicine and Health Sciences; Health Information Technology,"[{""id"": ""5c81de84e48c52001647c160"", ""text"": ""Medicine and Health Sciences""}, {""id"": ""5c81de85e48c52001647c188"", ""text"": ""Health Information Technology""}]",https://osf.io/download/67f828f0b7711fbdc38b84a5,0,,available,no,[],,2025-04-11T00:11:49.575235
apdxk_v2,A scoping review on metrics to quantify reproducibility: a multitude of questions leads to a multitude of metrics,"*Background:* Reproducibility is recognized as essential to scientific progress and integrity. Replication studies and large-scale replication projects, aiming to quantify different aspects of reproducibility, have become more common. Since no standardized approach to measuring reproducibility exists,a diverse set of metrics has emerged and a comprehensive overview is needed.

*Methods:* We conducted a scoping review to identify large-scale replication projects that used metrics and methodological papers that proposed or discussed metrics. The project list was compiled by the authors. For the methodological papers, we searched Scopus, MedLine, PsycINFO andEconLit. Records were screened in duplicate against predefined inclusion criteria. Demographic information on included records and information on reproducibility metrics used, suggested or discussed was extracted.

*Results:* We identified 49 large-scale projects and 97 methodological papers, and extracted 50 metrics. The metrics were characterized based on type (formulas and/or statistical models, frameworks, graphical representations, studies and questionnaires, algorithms), input required, and appropriate application scenarios. Each metric addresses a distinct question.

*Conclusions:* Our review provides a comprehensive resource in the form of a “live”, interactive table for future replication teams and meta-researchers, offering support in how to select the most appropriate metrics that are aligned with research questions and project goals.",2025-04-10T17:05:37.769602,2025-04-10T23:00:14.148319,2025-04-10T23:00:14.114745,,,metaarxiv,1,accepted,2,1,https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/apdxk_v2,CC-By Attribution 4.0 International,Generalizability; Literature Review; Meta-research; Metrics; Quantify; Replicability; Reproducibility; Translatability,"[""Generalizability"", ""Literature Review"", ""Meta-research"", ""Metrics"", ""Quantify"", ""Replicability"", ""Reproducibility"", ""Translatability""]",Rachel Heyard; Samuel Pawel; Joris Frese; Bernhard Voelkl; Hanno Würbel; Sarah McCann; Leonhard Held; Kimberley Wever; Helena Hartmann; Louise Townsin,"[{""id"": ""yd85p"", ""name"": ""Rachel Heyard"", ""index"": 0, ""orcid"": ""0000-0002-7531-4333"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""pvs62"", ""name"": ""Samuel Pawel"", ""index"": 1, ""orcid"": ""0000-0003-2779-320X"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""wrv62"", ""name"": ""Joris Frese"", ""index"": 2, ""orcid"": ""0000-0002-5871-997X"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""t4gy7"", ""name"": ""Bernhard Voelkl"", ""index"": 3, ""orcid"": null, ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""fnw5d"", ""name"": ""Hanno W\u00fcrbel"", ""index"": 4, ""orcid"": ""0000-0002-2934-3010"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""qcxz4"", ""name"": ""Sarah McCann"", ""index"": 5, ""orcid"": ""0000-0003-4737-2349"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""g7634"", ""name"": ""Leonhard Held"", ""index"": 6, ""orcid"": ""0000-0002-8686-5325"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""du2pj"", ""name"": ""Kimberley Wever"", ""index"": 7, ""orcid"": ""0000-0003-3635-3660"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""457pk"", ""name"": ""Helena Hartmann"", ""index"": 8, ""orcid"": ""0000-0002-1331-6683"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""2xzre"", ""name"": ""Louise Townsin"", ""index"": 9, ""orcid"": ""0000-0002-2212-1626"", ""bibliographic"": true}]",Rachel Heyard,Social and Behavioral Sciences; Library and Information Science; Social Statistics; Medicine and Health Sciences; Other Medicine and Health Sciences; Scholarly Communication; Physical Sciences and Mathematics; Statistics and Probability; Statistical Methodology,"[{""id"": ""5c81de83e48c52001647c154"", ""text"": ""Social and Behavioral Sciences""}, {""id"": ""5c81de83e48c52001647c159"", ""text"": ""Library and Information Science""}, {""id"": ""5c81de84e48c52001647c15d"", ""text"": ""Social Statistics""}, {""id"": ""5c81de84e48c52001647c160"", ""text"": ""Medicine and Health Sciences""}, {""id"": ""5c81de84e48c52001647c165"", ""text"": ""Other Medicine and Health Sciences""}, {""id"": ""5c81de84e48c52001647c16a"", ""text"": ""Scholarly Communication""}, {""id"": ""5c81de84e48c52001647c176"", ""text"": ""Physical Sciences and Mathematics""}, {""id"": ""5c81de85e48c52001647c180"", ""text"": ""Statistics and Probability""}, {""id"": ""5c81de85e48c52001647c18f"", ""text"": ""Statistical Methodology""}]",https://osf.io/download/67f7faada279ca40da8b8124,1,"SP and LH have developed two of the metrics identified in this review. 
RH, BV, HW, SKM, LH, KW and SZ receive funding from iRISE. iRISE receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101094853. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency (ERA). Neither the European Union nor the ERA can be held responsible for them. iRISE also receives funding from the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI): Direct Funding for Collaborative Projects as part of the transitional measures, and from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). HH was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation - Project-ID 422744262 -TRR 289).",available,available,"[""https://osf.io/j65wb""]",,2025-04-11T00:11:49.570448
cj36w_v1,Pre-Registration and Pre-Analysis Plans in Experimental Economics,"The open science movement has gained significant momentum over the past decade, with pre-registration and the use of pre-analysis plans being central to ongoing debates. Combining observational evidence on trends in adoption with survey data from 519 researchers, this study examines the adoption of pre-registration (potentially but not necessarily including pre-analysis plans) in experimental economics. Pooling statistics from 19 leading journals published between 2017 and 2023, we observe that the number of papers containing a pre-registration grew from seven per year to 190 per year. Our findings indicate that pre-registration has now become mainstream in experimental economics, with two-thirds of respondents expressing favorable views and 86% having pre-registered at least one study. However, opinions are divided on the scope and comprehensiveness of pre-registration, highlighting the need for clearer guidelines. Researchers assign a credibility premium to pre-registered tests, although the exact channels remain to be understood. Our results suggest growing support for open science practices among experimental economists, with demand for professional associations to guide researchers and reviewers on best practices for pre-registration and other open science initiatives.",2025-04-01T07:01:27.481923,2025-04-01T19:27:43.227017,2025-04-01T16:29:10.296220,,,metaarxiv,1,accepted,1,1,https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/cj36w_v1,CC-By Attribution 4.0 International,experimental economics; open science; pre-analysis plan; pre-registration; survey,"[""experimental economics"", ""open science"", ""pre-analysis plan"", ""pre-registration"", ""survey""]",Taisuke Imai; Séverine Toussaert; Aurelien Baillon; Anna Dreber Almenberg; seda ertac; Magnus Johannesson; Levent Neyse; Marie Claire Villeval,"[{""id"": ""u2z3q"", ""name"": ""Taisuke Imai"", ""index"": 0, ""orcid"": ""0000-0002-0610-8093"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""zuxpn"", ""name"": ""S\u00e9verine Toussaert"", ""index"": 1, ""orcid"": ""0000-0002-2491-6713"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""mprjy"", ""name"": ""Aurelien Baillon"", ""index"": 2, ""orcid"": ""0000-0002-0169-9760"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""ryzhp"", ""name"": ""Anna Dreber Almenberg"", ""index"": 3, ""orcid"": null, ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""fe54d"", ""name"": ""seda ertac"", ""index"": 4, ""orcid"": null, ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""n2ydp"", ""name"": ""Magnus Johannesson"", ""index"": 5, ""orcid"": null, ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""sdq32"", ""name"": ""Levent Neyse"", ""index"": 6, ""orcid"": ""0000-0001-6005-579X"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""ean4r"", ""name"": ""Marie Claire Villeval"", ""index"": 7, ""orcid"": ""0000-0001-8578-5449"", ""bibliographic"": true}]",Taisuke Imai,Social and Behavioral Sciences,"[{""id"": ""5c81de83e48c52001647c154"", ""text"": ""Social and Behavioral Sciences""}]",https://osf.io/download/67eb8f52ffb458edf6b253a6,0,,not_applicable,available,"[""https://osf.io/e5yz4/""]",prereg_both,2025-04-09T21:06:22.289090
gx9jq_v2,How to get there from here? Barriers and enablers on  the road towards reproducibility in research,"Reproducibility of research is a hotly debated topic, including aspects like causes and consequences of low levels of reproducibility. While some research fields have led the way and introduced various reproducibility practices and procedures, the call for efforts to ‘improve’ reproducibility in research has not come without criticisms. The current study uses a future studies methodology to gather perceptions of developments in the research ecosystem related to reproducibility issues. It draws on input from representatives of four main stakeholder categories: scholarly publishers, funding agencies, qualitative social scientists and machine learning researchers. Particularly, it discusses the enablers and barriers that members of these stakeholder communities foresee on the road towards a research ecosystem that is more conducive to reproducibility.
The study finds that enablers and barriers can be categorised into five main clusters. The factors most prominently mentioned as potentially supporting or hindering a desired future are located within research culture, including norms, values and shared definitions; and in the infrastructure required to engage in reproducibility practices, including repositories, support staff, and digital infrastructure. Three other clusters of factors put forth by participants relate to policy efforts required to incentivise reproducibility practices; training and education to empower researchers and support staff to engage in reproducibility practices; and the financial resources required to facilitate the transition towards a desired future and to specifically fund replication studies. This manuscript also identifies several tensions between enablers and barriers perceived by diverse stakeholders and concludes with recommendations for addressing these.",2025-03-25T07:43:26.475740,2025-03-26T07:15:00.838022,2025-03-25T20:59:30.811541,,,metaarxiv,1,accepted,2,1,https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/gx9jq_v2,CC-BY Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International,TIER2; future studies; open science; reproduciblity,"[""TIER2"", ""future studies"", ""open science"", ""reproduciblity""]",Serge P.J.M. Horbach; Nicki Lisa Cole; Simone Kopeinik; Barbara Leitner; Tony Ross-Hellauer; Joeri Tijdink,"[{""id"": ""dgu5r"", ""name"": ""Serge P.J.M. Horbach"", ""index"": 0, ""orcid"": ""0000-0003-0406-6261"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""7394h"", ""name"": ""Nicki Lisa Cole"", ""index"": 1, ""orcid"": ""0000-0002-6034-533X"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""2umsf"", ""name"": ""Simone Kopeinik"", ""index"": 2, ""orcid"": null, ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""8t4s7"", ""name"": ""Barbara Leitner"", ""index"": 3, ""orcid"": null, ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""zuxft"", ""name"": ""Tony Ross-Hellauer"", ""index"": 4, ""orcid"": ""0000-0003-4470-7027"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""na86r"", ""name"": ""Joeri Tijdink"", ""index"": 5, ""orcid"": null, ""bibliographic"": true}]",Serge P.J.M. Horbach,Social and Behavioral Sciences; Other Social and Behavioral Sciences,"[{""id"": ""5c81de83e48c52001647c154"", ""text"": ""Social and Behavioral Sciences""}, {""id"": ""5c81de83e48c52001647c155"", ""text"": ""Other Social and Behavioral Sciences""}]",https://osf.io/download/67e25ed7ad165245f0c7d01c,0,,no,available,"[""https://osf.io/87z29""]",,2025-04-09T21:06:22.219593
cwftm_v1,Open Science in Impact Evaluation: What Impact Evaluators can Learn from the Replication Crisis in Social Psychology,"Since 2011, the academic field of social psychology has been undergoing a crisis of confidence in its results. This so-called ""replication crisis"" has inspired a widespread examination of the practices that can lead to less than credible results, the incentives that inspire such practices, and the practices that could protect or enhance research credibility. We believe that the credibility of the field of impact evaluation may be similarly threatened by incentives to use poor research practices. We assess the history of both social psychology and impact evaluation and conclude that, although the source of the incentives for impact evaluators is different in kind than those for social psychologists, impact evaluators may be similarly incentivized to make their results look better than they really are. We review three parallels in the history of the two fields, including the use of research as sales, the pressurized, competitive environments in which the work takes place, and the use of research methods as rhetorical devices. Impact evaluators may be able to learn from the credibility-enhancing solutions that worked for social psychology, though the field can consider new tools, such as standards, investment mechanisms, administrative data labs, and innovations inevidence-sharing and synthesis. Rather than sleepwalking through a crisis we cannot see, impact evaluators should consider that their field may be in crisis, a crisis that may require widespread and collective efforts –a credibility renaissance – to discover and deploy methods to protect its legitimacy.",2025-03-23T07:33:26.076100,2025-03-26T07:12:21.865686,2025-03-25T20:58:14.081525,2025-02-21T21:00:00,,metaarxiv,1,accepted,1,1,https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/cwftm_v1,CC-BY Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International,Meta-research; Non-profits; Research credibility; Social psychology,"[""Meta-research"", ""Non-profits"", ""Research credibility"", ""Social psychology""]",Ben McNamee; Patrick S. Forscher; Michael Lenczner,"[{""id"": ""38q6d"", ""name"": ""Ben McNamee"", ""index"": 0, ""orcid"": null, ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""eff4m"", ""name"": ""Patrick S. Forscher"", ""index"": 1, ""orcid"": ""0000-0002-7763-3565"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""4ky2u"", ""name"": ""Michael Lenczner"", ""index"": 2, ""orcid"": null, ""bibliographic"": true}]",Ben McNamee,Social and Behavioral Sciences; Economics; Psychology; Political Economy; Social Psychology,"[{""id"": ""5c81de83e48c52001647c154"", ""text"": ""Social and Behavioral Sciences""}, {""id"": ""5c81de83e48c52001647c157"", ""text"": ""Economics""}, {""id"": ""5c81de85e48c52001647c17e"", ""text"": ""Psychology""}, {""id"": ""5c81de86e48c52001647c1a2"", ""text"": ""Political Economy""}, {""id"": ""5c81de87e48c52001647c1c9"", ""text"": ""Social Psychology""}]",https://osf.io/download/67dfba69bb0557890f053b5a,1,The authors disclose that they work at institutions interested in the credibility of research.,not_applicable,not_applicable,[],,2025-04-09T21:06:23.185054
6pjbc_v1,"Catalysing mathematical, computing, and statistical innovation towards applied sciences","Bridging the divide between mathematical innovations and real-world applications is essential for addressing global challenges. By fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, diversity, and inclusion, we can unlock the full potential of mathematical findings, driving innovation across applied disciplines and delivering mathematical solutions to society’s pressing problems.",2025-03-17T02:15:24.965471,2025-03-17T18:04:41.802532,2025-03-17T18:02:18.720196,,,metaarxiv,1,accepted,1,1,https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/6pjbc_v1,,,[],Yefeng Yang; Manman Liu; Malgorzata Lagisz; Shinichi Nakagawa,"[{""id"": ""7x859"", ""name"": ""Yefeng Yang"", ""index"": 0, ""orcid"": ""0000-0002-8610-4016"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""3f7e6"", ""name"": ""Manman Liu"", ""index"": 1, ""orcid"": null, ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""at6rb"", ""name"": ""Malgorzata Lagisz"", ""index"": 2, ""orcid"": ""0000-0002-3993-6127"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""wnyrk"", ""name"": ""Shinichi Nakagawa"", ""index"": 3, ""orcid"": ""0000-0002-7765-5182"", ""bibliographic"": true}]",Yefeng Yang,Social and Behavioral Sciences; Medicine and Health Sciences; Physical Sciences and Mathematics,"[{""id"": ""5c81de83e48c52001647c154"", ""text"": ""Social and Behavioral Sciences""}, {""id"": ""5c81de84e48c52001647c160"", ""text"": ""Medicine and Health Sciences""}, {""id"": ""5c81de84e48c52001647c176"", ""text"": ""Physical Sciences and Mathematics""}]",https://osf.io/download/67d785dc2627fba70af4b7fc,0,,,,null,,2025-04-09T21:06:17.611379
tz6be_v2,Tracking transformative agreements through open metadata: method and validation using Dutch Research Council NWO funded papers.,"Transformative agreements have become an important strategy in the transition to open access, with almost 1,200 such agreements registered by 2025. Despite their prevalence, these agreements suffer from important transparency limitations, most notably article-level metadata indicating which articles are covered by these agreements. Typically, this data is available to libraries but not openly shared, making it difficult to study the impact of these agreements. In this paper, we present a novel, open, replicable method for analyzing transformative agreements using open metadata, specifically the Journal Checker tool provided by cOAlition S and OpenAlex. To demonstrate its potential, we apply our approach to a subset of publications funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and its health research counterpart ZonMw. In addition, the results of this open method are compared with the actual publisher data reported to the Dutch university library consortium UKB. This validation shows that this open method accurately identified 89% of the publications covered by transformative agreements, while the 11% false positives shed an interesting light on the limitations of this method. In the absence of hard, openly available article-level data on transformative agreements, we provide researchers and institutions with a powerful tool to critically track and evaluate the impact of these agreements.",2025-03-10T18:36:58.329584,2025-03-10T20:36:01.688495,2025-03-10T20:27:18.179754,2025-02-09T23:00:00,,metaarxiv,1,accepted,2,1,https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/tz6be_v2,CC-By Attribution 4.0 International,Journal Checker Tool; OpenAlex; Transformative agreements; open access; open metadata,"[""Journal Checker Tool"", ""OpenAlex"", ""Transformative agreements"", ""open access"", ""open metadata""]",Hans de Jonge; Bianca Kramer; Jeroen Sondervan,"[{""id"": ""w64ge"", ""name"": ""Hans de Jonge"", ""index"": 0, ""orcid"": ""0000-0002-1189-9133"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""z2g75"", ""name"": ""Bianca Kramer"", ""index"": 1, ""orcid"": ""0000-0002-5965-6560"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""d3kav"", ""name"": ""Jeroen Sondervan"", ""index"": 2, ""orcid"": null, ""bibliographic"": true}]",Hans de Jonge,Social and Behavioral Sciences; Library and Information Science; Cataloging and Metadata; Scholarly Communication; Scholarly Publishing,"[{""id"": ""5c81de83e48c52001647c154"", ""text"": ""Social and Behavioral Sciences""}, {""id"": ""5c81de83e48c52001647c159"", ""text"": ""Library and Information Science""}, {""id"": ""5c81de84e48c52001647c15f"", ""text"": ""Cataloging and Metadata""}, {""id"": ""5c81de84e48c52001647c16a"", ""text"": ""Scholarly Communication""}, {""id"": ""5c81de84e48c52001647c16c"", ""text"": ""Scholarly Publishing""}]",https://osf.io/download/67cf316eb250cb170bfd6b19,0,,available,not_applicable,[],,2025-04-09T21:06:11.685759
j54gb_v2,When Hypothesis Preregistration Feeds Into Theory Development,"Study preregistrations and theory development have been proposed as independent strategies for improving the quality, transparency, robustness, and reproducibility of research. Yet, a discussion of how theory and preregistration could interact and complement each other towards improved science is currently lacking. Here, we argue that hypothesis preregistration could stimulate theory development by serving various roles, depending on the availability or quality of theories and hypotheses in a field at any given time. We suggest that, in appropriate conditions, preregistration can increase the quality of hypotheses before they are tested, with indirect beneficial effects on theory development. In fields where theories are less developed or agreed upon, or are lacking altogether, hypothesis preregistration can nudge researchers to improve and share their hypotheses, engaging their community and facilitating accumulation and development of hypotheses. As a field’s theories and hypotheses become more advanced and better understood, hypothesis preregistration can become less important: the theory itself can function as a public repository of hypotheses and can constrain methodological aspects of research. We explore possible relations and synergies between hypothesis preregistration and theory development in a range of scenarios. We conclude with a discussion of implications and recommendations for researchers and meta-scientists.",2025-03-10T14:59:30.445722,2025-03-10T20:35:04.592910,2025-03-10T20:25:54.246600,2025-03-05T23:00:00,https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.130077,metaarxiv,1,accepted,2,1,https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/j54gb_v2,CC-By Attribution 4.0 International,Meta-science; Preregistration; Science reform; Theory development,"[""Meta-science"", ""Preregistration"", ""Science reform"", ""Theory development""]",Agata Bochynska; Giosuè Baggio,"[{""id"": ""zkghc"", ""name"": ""Agata Bochynska"", ""index"": 0, ""orcid"": ""0000-0001-6211-8600"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""qxew6"", ""name"": ""Giosu\u00e8 Baggio"", ""index"": 1, ""orcid"": ""0000-0001-5086-0365"", ""bibliographic"": true}]",Agata Bochynska,Social and Behavioral Sciences; Psychology; Theory and Philosophy,"[{""id"": ""5c81de83e48c52001647c154"", ""text"": ""Social and Behavioral Sciences""}, {""id"": ""5c81de85e48c52001647c17e"", ""text"": ""Psychology""}, {""id"": ""5c81de87e48c52001647c1d7"", ""text"": ""Theory and Philosophy""}]",https://osf.io/download/67cefeb28857c789d2fd6b80,0,,not_applicable,not_applicable,[],,2025-04-09T21:06:19.835784
gx9jq_v1,How to get there from here? Barriers and enablers on  the road towards reproducibility in research,"Reproducibility of research is a hotly debated topic, including aspects like causes and consequences of low levels of reproducibility. While some research fields have led the way and introduced various reproducibility practices and procedures, the call for efforts to ‘improve’ reproducibility in research has not come without criticisms. The current study uses a future studies methodology to gather perceptions of developments in the research ecosystem related to reproducibility issues. It draws on input from representatives of four main stakeholder categories: scholarly publishers, funding agencies, qualitative social scientists and machine learning researchers. Particularly, it discusses the enablers and barriers that members of these stakeholder communities foresee on the road towards a research ecosystem that is more conducive to reproducibility.
The study finds that enablers and barriers can be categorised into five main clusters. The factors most prominently mentioned as potentially supporting or hindering a desired future are located within research culture, including norms, values and shared definitions; and in the infrastructure required to engage in reproducibility practices, including repositories, support staff, and digital infrastructure. Three other clusters of factors put forth by participants relate to policy efforts required to incentivise reproducibility practices; training and education to empower researchers and support staff to engage in reproducibility practices; and the financial resources required to facilitate the transition towards a desired future and to specifically fund replication studies. This manuscript also identifies several tensions between enablers and barriers perceived by diverse stakeholders and concludes with recommendations for addressing these.",2025-03-06T12:09:49.058849,2025-03-25T07:40:27.927169,2025-03-10T20:23:55.114892,,,metaarxiv,1,accepted,1,0,https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/gx9jq_v1,CC-BY Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International,TIER2; future studies; open science; reproduciblity,"[""TIER2"", ""future studies"", ""open science"", ""reproduciblity""]",Serge P.J.M. Horbach; Nicki Lisa Cole; Simone Kopeinik; Barbara Leitner; Tony Ross-Hellauer; Joeri Tijdink,"[{""id"": ""dgu5r"", ""name"": ""Serge P.J.M. Horbach"", ""index"": 0, ""orcid"": ""0000-0003-0406-6261"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""7394h"", ""name"": ""Nicki Lisa Cole"", ""index"": 1, ""orcid"": ""0000-0002-6034-533X"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""2umsf"", ""name"": ""Simone Kopeinik"", ""index"": 2, ""orcid"": null, ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""8t4s7"", ""name"": ""Barbara Leitner"", ""index"": 3, ""orcid"": null, ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""zuxft"", ""name"": ""Tony Ross-Hellauer"", ""index"": 4, ""orcid"": ""0000-0003-4470-7027"", ""bibliographic"": true}, {""id"": ""na86r"", ""name"": ""Joeri Tijdink"", ""index"": 5, ""orcid"": null, ""bibliographic"": true}]",Serge P.J.M. Horbach,Social and Behavioral Sciences; Other Social and Behavioral Sciences,"[{""id"": ""5c81de83e48c52001647c154"", ""text"": ""Social and Behavioral Sciences""}, {""id"": ""5c81de83e48c52001647c155"", ""text"": ""Other Social and Behavioral Sciences""}]",https://osf.io/download/67c990a92b025affb3fd70f8,0,,no,available,"[""https://osf.io/87z29""]",prereg_both,2025-04-09T21:06:14.895588