A Layered Framework for Considering Open Science Practices |
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| Authors: | Nicholas David Bowman Justin Robert Keene |
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| Institution: | 1. Nicholas David Bowman (Ph.D., Michigan State University) is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at West Virginia University, where he founded and directs the Interaction Lab (#ixlab). Justin Robert Keene (Ph.D., Indiana University-Bloomington) is an Assistant Professor of Creative Media Industries and the Director of the Cognition and Emotion Lab in the College of Media &2. Communication at Texas Tech University. |
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| Abstract: | The open science movement, although not new to social science broadly, has gained momentum recently within communication science. In response, journals in our field have begun encouraging open science practices, from data and materials sharing to submitting preregistered research reports. However, this momentum has also led to some confusion over what is and is not considered open science and what the value of open sciences practices is. In this editorial we lay out an “onion model” of open science that describes increasing levels of transparency and suggests how open science practices can be understood less as a revolutionary concept but more as a logical extension of some of the historical pillars of scientific norms. Through this model, we provide tangible steps for how scholars may begin thinking about how to introduce open science practices into their current and future empirical efforts. |
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| Keywords: | Open Science Preregistered Reports Research Ethics Transparency |
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