Discipline: Other Social Sciences

Egor Bronnikov

Egor is a doctoral researcher and PhD Candidate in Economics at the School of Business and Economics at Maastricht University, a research assistant at the Faculty of Economics at Harvard University, and an adjunct professor at the Free University of Moscow (Brīvā Universitāte). Inter alia, Egor is a member of Dissernet, an…

Social Science Reproduction Platform

The Social Science Reproduction Platform crowdsources and catalogs attempts to assess and improve the computational reproducibility of social science research. Instructors can use the SSRP in applied social science courses at the graduate or undergraduate levels to teach fundamental concepts, methods, and reproducible research practices. Get started by creating a free account and browsing…

A template README for social science replication packages

The template README follows best practices as defined by a number of data editors at social science journals. A full list of endorsers is listed in Endorsers. The most recent version is available at https://social-science-data-editors.github.io/template_README/. Specific releases can be found at https://github.com/social-science-data-editors/template_README/releases. The template README is available in a variety of formats, including HTML…

Shaon Lahiri

Shaon Lahiri is a social and behavioral scientist within the field of public health. He studies psychosocial processes across a number of behaviors that impact health, such as modern contraceptive use, intimate partner violence, Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis use, and tobacco use. His expertise is in the measurement, operationalization, and analysis of social normative…

Protocols That Work

Find slides from a presentation by Nick Adams titled “Protocols That Work”.

Data for Development Impact (Resource Guide)

“Data for Development Impact: The DIME Analytics Resource Guide” is intended to serve as an introduction to the primary tasks required in development research, from experimental design to data collection to data analysis to publication. It serves as a companion to the DIME Wiki and is produced by DIME Analytics.

AEA Registry for RCTs

The American Economic Association (AEA) Randomized Controlled Trials Registry is a registry for RCTs conducted in the social sciences. Registration is free and you do not need to be a member of the AEA to register. We encourage you to register any new study before data collection.

Royal Society Open Science Registered Reports

The Royal Society Open Science is a fast, open journal publishing high quality research across all of science, engineering and mathematics. A Registered Report (RR) is a form of journal article in which methods and proposed analyses are pre-registered and peer-reviewed prior to research being conducted (stage 1). High quality protocols are then…

Gates Open Research

Gates Open Research is a scholarly publishing platform that makes research funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation available quickly and in a format supporting research integrity, reproducibility and transparency. Its open access model enables immediate publication followed by open, invited peer review, combined with an open data policy.

Joshua Polanin

2017 Leamer-Rosenthal Prize Recipient — Emerging Researcher Dr. Joshua R. Polanin is a Principal Researcher at American Institutes of Research. He graduated from Loyola University Chicago in 2013 with a Ph.D. in Research Methodology with a focus in Quantitative Methodology. Dr. Polanin completed an Institute of Education Science’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at Vanderbilt…

Conservative Tests under Satisficing Models of Publication Bias

Publication bias leads consumers of research to observe a selected sample of statistical estimates calculated by producers of research. We calculate critical values for statistical significance that undo the distortions created by this selection effect, assuming that the only source of publication bias is file drawer bias. These adjusted critical values are…

SocArxiv

Open archive of preprints for the social sciences.

Dryad

Dryad is a curated repository of data underlying peer-reviewed scientific and medical literature, particularly data for which no specialized repository exists. All material in Dryad is associated with a scholarly publication. Its notable features include easy integration into the manuscript submission workflow of its partner journals, the flexibility to make data privately…

ICPSR

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction (over 10,000 discrete studies and surveys with more than 65,000 datasets). ICPSR has been archiving data since 1962.

EGAP Registry

The Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) Registry focuses on designs for experiments and observational studies in governance and politics. The registry allows users to submit an array of information via an online form. Registered studies can be viewed in the form of a pdf on the EGAP site. The EGAP registry…

Dena Plemmons

My recent work with colleagues at UCRiverside explores the possibility of increasing transparency and communication within and among labs in the physical, life, and biomedical sciences through both purposeful ethics training, and the use of the OSF platform.

Sean Grant

Sean Grant is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences at the Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health. His research focused on evaluating psychosocial interventions and advancing the rigor of intervention research methods. He principally researches interventions for substance use, though he is passionate about…

Sean Grant

Sean Grant is an Associate Behavioral and Social Scientist at the RAND Corporation. Dr. Grant was awarded a 2015 Leamer-Rosenthal Prize in the Emerging Researcher category led the methodological development of CONSORT-SPI, a set of standards for transparently reporting randomized trials in the social and psychological sciences. As an associate editor for Research on…