Call for Papers on Research Transparency

by Alexander Wais

The Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) will be holding its 3rd annual conference at UC Berkeley on December 11-12, 2014. The goal of the meeting is to bring together leaders from academia, scholarly publishing, and policy which are committed to strengthening the standards of rigor across social science disciplines.

A select number of papers elaborating new tools and strategies to increase the transparency of research will be presented and discussed. Topics for papers include, but are not limited to:

• Pre-registration and the use of pre-analysis plans;
• Disclosure and transparent reporting;
• Replicability and reproducibility;
• Data sharing;
• Methods for detecting and reducing publication bias or data mining.

Papers or long abstracts must be submitted by Friday, October 10th (midnight Pacific time) through CEGA’s Submission Platform. Travel funds will be provided for presenters. Submission can be of completed papers or works in progress.

The 2014 BITSS Conference is sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation.