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Guideline
Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines✎
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Uploaded by
David Mellor
on 01 November 2015
Center for Open Science (COS)
SUMMARY ✎
The Guidelines for Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) in Journal Policies and Practices provide standards that reward researchers for engaging in open practices, describe what openness means across the scientific process so that research can be reproduced and evaluated, and address the values of preregistration.
The guidelines discuss eight categories of transparency standards:
- citation standards
- data transparency
- analytic methods (code) transparency
- research materials transparency
- design and analysis transparency
- preregistration of studies
- preregistration of analysis plans
- replication
In addition, each category has three levels of transparency (from milder to stronger standards), allowing adopting journals to select a transparency level that what works best for authors and researchers.
ACCESS ✎
Open
FORMAT ✎
Online
SCALE ✎
National, International, Local, Regional, Global
LANGUAGE ✎
English
PROCESS ✎
Transparency, Openness
STAGE ✎
Dissemination
The guidelines are modular so they can be adopted singly or collectively. Template text is provided for each transparency level in each category, and the appendix provides a full-text template for each level.
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