Sister Organizations

 

DA-RT is one of many organizations who dedicate themselves to improving the credibility, legitimacy, and value of social science research through increasing transparency and openness. 

 

 

AAPOR Transparency Initiative

 

AAPOR has for decades worked to encourage objective survey standards for practice and disclosure. Its Transparency Initiative pursues the goal of an open science of survey research. "We seek to recognize those organizations that pledge to practice transparency in their reporting of survey-based findings. In doing so, AAPOR makes no judgment about the quality or rigor of the methods being disclosed. Rather, we are acknowledging member’s willingness to publicly disclose their procedures."

 

BITSS (Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences)

 

The Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences is an international network of researchers and institutions committed to improving the standards of openness and integrity in economics, political science, psychology, and related disciplines. Central to BITSS efforts is the identification of useful tools and strategies for increasing transparency and reproducibility in research, including the use of study registries, pre-analysis plans, version control, data sharing platforms, disclosure standards, and replications.

 

CASBS Best Practices in Science

 

Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study hosts the Group on Best Practices in Science.  Its website documents research on how scientific practices may become compromised and provides a platform to spur discussion about such issues. It offers a compilation of academic publications, news articles, and web postings related to the subject, and lists other online resources about scientific practices.

 

Center for Open Science

 

COS is a non-profit technology company providing free and open services to increase inclusivity and transparency of research. COS supports shifting incentives and practices to align more closely with scientific values.

 

Evidence in Governance and Politics

 

EGAP "is a cross-disciplinary network of researchers and practitioners which is united by a focus on experimental research and is dedicated to generating and disseminating rigorous evidence on topics of governance, politics, and institutions. We seek to forge partnerships between researchers and practitioners committed to understanding the politics of global development, advance evidence-based policy making, and improve the quality of empirical research in the social sciences."

 

IRIS (Instruments for Research into Second-Language Learning)

 

IRIS is "an online repository of research materials, stimuli, and instruments used in research on second-language learning, teaching, use, and assessment." It is a cross-disciplinary organization that shares our dedication to increasing transparency across many highly meaningful forms of social inquiry.

 

Political Science Replication

 

This blog is "about reproducibility, replication, pre-registration, research transparency and open peer review. The blog started as a personal project with a focus on political science, and it is now used by many scholars to exchange ideas about replication in the wider social and natural sciences."