[The Replicants]

Literature suggests open science principles could be used to solve problems related to replication and the trust issues correlated with them within the scientific community. Open science is a movement that stands for openness during the entire research process, which the movement believes to attribute to the quality of the final article. Examples of open science principles include open data, pre-registration, registered reports, publishing null-findings and exploring different analyses. Unfortunately, the replicability issue, despite all efforts, still exists.

It is suggested that open science principles are not always implemented in research by academia, who themselves raised these principles as a possible solution for the replicability and reproducibility issues. The proposed reason for this seeming lack of implementation within academia are the many disadvantages existing for individual researchers, besides the advantages. The research on replicability issues and open science principles is performed, mainly within the field of psychology, while other fields are also affected. Literature on education of these open science principles for students in research programs of any fields appear scarce. It is our main aim to identify if students in research programs, the future generation of scientists, are aware of the open science principles and to investigate if educators in research programs actively try to communicate these principles to their students. Furthermore, we will explore the views of students in research programs and their educators on these principles to get an understanding of their functioning in the current academic system. This new knowledge might propose additional research suggestions or potentially even offer solutions for the replicability issues within research.

Please let us know your own experiences with open science principles.

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