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Description

The Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines are a policy framework developed by social scientists, editors, and funders to guide journals and funding agencies in adopting standards for transparent, preregistered, reproducible research.

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  • TOP Guidelines for transparency and openness in publishing and funding: The Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines, developed in 2014 among social scientists, editors, and funders, are a policy framework for journals and funders. The article states they "cover eight specific standards where open science can be practiced in publishing and funding", including data citation; data, materials, and code transparency; design and analysis transparency; preregistration; and replication research. Each standard has three levels of increasing rigor, and TOP provides specific policy recommendations and a plan for increasing rigor over time. (Mellor (2021))

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Key Sources

  • Mellor, D. (2021). Improving norms in research culture to incentivize transparency and rigor. Educational Psychologist, 56(2). https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3125-5888
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