eLife (Nov 2023)
Eleven strategies for making reproducible research and open science training the norm at research institutions
- Friederike E Kohrs,
- Susann Auer,
- Alexandra Bannach-Brown,
- Susann Fiedler,
- Tamarinde Laura Haven,
- Verena Heise,
- Constance Holman,
- Flavio Azevedo,
- René Bernard,
- Arnim Bleier,
- Nicole Bössel,
- Brian Patrick Cahill,
- Leyla Jael Castro,
- Adrian Ehrenhofer,
- Kristina Eichel,
- Maximillian Frank,
- Claudia Frick,
- Malte Friese,
- Anne Gärtner,
- Kerstin Gierend,
- David Joachim Grüning,
- Lena Hahn,
- Maren Hülsemann,
- Malika Ihle,
- Sabrina Illius,
- Laura König,
- Matthias König,
- Louisa Kulke,
- Anton Kutlin,
- Fritjof Lammers,
- David MA Mehler,
- Christoph Miehl,
- Anett Müller-Alcazar,
- Claudia Neuendorf,
- Helen Niemeyer,
- Florian Pargent,
- Aaron Peikert,
- Christina U Pfeuffer,
- Robert Reinecke,
- Jan Philipp Röer,
- Jessica L Rohmann,
- Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar,
- Stefan Scherbaum,
- Elena Sixtus,
- Lisa Spitzer,
- Vera Maren Straßburger,
- Marcel Weber,
- Clarissa J Whitmire,
- Josephine Zerna,
- Dilara Zorbek,
- Philipp Zumstein,
- Tracey L Weissgerber
Affiliations
- Friederike E Kohrs
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- QUEST Center for Responsible Research, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Susann Auer
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Alexandra Bannach-Brown
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- QUEST Center for Responsible Research, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Susann Fiedler
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- Department Strategy & Innovation, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria
- Tamarinde Laura Haven
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- Danish Centre for Studies in Research & Research Policy, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Verena Heise
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- Freelance researcher, Gladbeck, Germany
- Constance Holman
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- QUEST Center for Responsible Research, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Flavio Azevedo
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- Saxony Center for Criminological Research, Chemnitz, Germany; University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- René Bernard
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- NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Arnim Bleier
- Department for Computational Social Sciences, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany
- Nicole Bössel
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- Brian Patrick Cahill
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- Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Hannover, Germany
- Leyla Jael Castro
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- ZB MED Information Centre for Life Sciences, Cologne, Germany
- Adrian Ehrenhofer
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- Institute of Solid Mechanics & Dresden Center for Intelligent Materials, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Kristina Eichel
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- Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Maximillian Frank
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- Department Psychology, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
- Claudia Frick
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- Institute of Information Science, Technische Hochschule Köln, Köln, Germany
- Malte Friese
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- Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
- Anne Gärtner
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- Department of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Kerstin Gierend
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics at the Center for Preventive Medicine and Digital Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
- David Joachim Grüning
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- Department of Psychology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany; Department of Survey Development and Methodology, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Mannheim, Germany
- Lena Hahn
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- Department of Social Psychology, Universität Trier, Trier, Germany
- Maren Hülsemann
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- QUEST Center for Responsible Research, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Malika Ihle
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- LMU Open Science Center, Department of Psychology, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
- Sabrina Illius
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- ICAN Institute for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Human Sciences, Medical School Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Laura König
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- Faculty of Life Sciences: Food, Nutrition and Health, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
- Matthias König
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- Institute for Biology, Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt-University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Louisa Kulke
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- Developmental Psychology with Educational Psychology, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
- Anton Kutlin
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- Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany
- Fritjof Lammers
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- Division of Regulatory Genomics and Cancer Evolution, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany
- David MA Mehler
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Medical School, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
- Christoph Miehl
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- Computation in Neural Circuits, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany
- Anett Müller-Alcazar
- ICAN Institute for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Human Sciences, Medical School Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Claudia Neuendorf
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- Hector-Institute for Education Sciences and Psychology, Eberhard Karls, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Helen Niemeyer
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- Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Florian Pargent
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- Department Psychology, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
- Aaron Peikert
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- Christina U Pfeuffer
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- Department of Psychology, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Eichstätt, Germany
- Robert Reinecke
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- Institute of Geography, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
- Jan Philipp Röer
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- Department of Psychology and Psychotherapy, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany
- Jessica L Rohmann
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- Scientific Directorate, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), Berlin, Germany
- Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
- Stefan Scherbaum
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- Department of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Elena Sixtus
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- Empirical Childhood Research, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
- Lisa Spitzer
- Leibniz Institute for Psychology, Trier, Germany
- Vera Maren Straßburger
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- Department of Psychology, Medical School Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Gender in Medicine (GiM), Berlin, Germany
- Marcel Weber
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- Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
- Clarissa J Whitmire
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- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association, Berlin, Germany; Neuroscience Research Center, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Josephine Zerna
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- Department of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
- Dilara Zorbek
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- International Graduate Program Medical Neurosciences, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Philipp Zumstein
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- Open Science Office, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
- Tracey L Weissgerber
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- QUEST Center for Responsible Research, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.89736
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 12
Abstract
Reproducible research and open science practices have the potential to accelerate scientific progress by allowing others to reuse research outputs, and by promoting rigorous research that is more likely to yield trustworthy results. However, these practices are uncommon in many fields, so there is a clear need for training that helps and encourages researchers to integrate reproducible research and open science practices into their daily work. Here, we outline eleven strategies for making training in these practices the norm at research institutions. The strategies, which emerged from a virtual brainstorming event organized in collaboration with the German Reproducibility Network, are concentrated in three areas: (i) adapting research assessment criteria and program requirements; (ii) training; (iii) building communities. We provide a brief overview of each strategy, offer tips for implementation, and provide links to resources. We also highlight the importance of allocating resources and monitoring impact. Our goal is to encourage researchers – in their roles as scientists, supervisors, mentors, instructors, and members of curriculum, hiring or evaluation committees – to think creatively about the many ways they can promote reproducible research and open science practices in their institutions.
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