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Open and Reproducible Research on Open Science Framework

By implementing more transparent research practices, authors have the opportunity to stand out and showcase work that is more reproducible, easier to build upon, and more credible. Scientists gain by making work easier to share and maintain within their own laboratories, and the scientific community gains by making underlying data or research materials more available for confirmation or making new discoveries. The following protocol gives authors step‐by‐step instructions for using the free and open source Open Science Framework (OSF) to create a data management plan, preregister their study, use version control, share data and other research materials, or post a preprint for quick and easy dissemination.

Rigor, Reproducibility, and Responsibility: A Quantum of Solace

Lack of reproducibility in biomedical science is aserious and growing issue. Two publications, in 2011 and 2012, along with other analyses, documented failures to replicate key findings and other fundamental flaws in high-visibility research articles. This triggered action among funding bodies, journals, and other change-agents. Here, I examine well-recognized and underrecognized factors that contribute to experimental failure andsuggest individual and community approaches that can be used to attack these factors and eschew the SPECTRE of irreproducibility.

Encouraging Reproducibility in Scientific Research of the Internet

Reproducibility of research in Computer Science (CS) and in the field of networking in particularis a well-recognized problem. For several reasons, including the sensitive and/or proprietarynature of some Internet measurements, the networking research community pays limited attentionto the of reproducibility of results, instead tending to accept papers that appear plausible.This article summarises a 2.5 day long Dagstuhl seminar on Encouraging Reproducibility inScientific Research of the Internet held in October 2018. The seminar discussed challenges toimproving reproducibility of scientific Internet research, and developed a set of recommendationsthat we as a community can undertake to initiate a cultural change toward reproducibility ofour work. It brought together people both from academia and industry to set expectations andformulate concrete recommendations for reproducible research. This iteration of the seminar wasscoped to computer networking research, although the outcomes are likely relevant for a broaderaudience from multiple interdisciplinary fields.

Study on automatic citation screening in systematic reviews: reporting, reproducibility and complexity

Research into text mining based tool support for citation screening in systematic reviews is growing. The field has not experienced much independent validation. It is anticipated that more transparency in studies will increase reproducibility and in-depth understanding leading to the maturation of the field. The citation screen tool presented aims to support research transparency, reproducibility and timely evolution of sustainable tools.

The battle for reproducibility over storytelling

This issue of Cortex plays host to a lively debate about the reliability of cognitive neuroscience research. Across seven Discussion Forum pieces, scientists representing a range of backgrounds and career levels reflect on whether the "reproducibility crisis" – or "credibility revolution" (Vazire, 2018; Munafò et al., 2017) – that has achieved such prominence in psychology has extended into cognitive neuroscience. If so, they ask, what is the underlying cause and how can we solve it?

Successes and struggles with computational reproducibility: Lessons from the Fragile Families Challenge

Reproducibility is fundamental to science, and an important component of reproducibility is computational reproducibility: the ability of a researcher to recreate the results in a published paper using the original author's raw data and code. Although most people agree that computational reproducibility is important, it is still difficult to achieve in practice. In this paper, we describe our approach to enabling computational reproducibility for the 12 papers in this special issue of Socius about the Fragile Families Challenge. Our approach draws on two tools commonly used by professional software engineers but not widely used by academic researchers: software containers (e.g., Docker) and cloud computing (e.g., Amazon Web Services). These tools enabled us to standardize the computing environment around each submission, which will ease computational reproducibility both today and in the future. Drawing on our successes and struggles, we conclude with recommendations to authors and journals.