Open Science Badges enhance openness, a core value of scientific practice

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Open Science Badges enhance openness,
a core value of scientific practice.

What are Open Science Badges?

• Badges to acknowledge open science practices are incentives for researchers to share data, materials, or to preregister.
• Badges signal to the reader that the content has been made available and certify its accessibility in a persistent location.

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Badges seem silly. Do they work?

• Yes. Implementing these badges dramatically increases the rate of data sharing (Kidwell et al, 2016).
• A recent systematic review identified this badging program as the only evidence-based incentive program that is associated with increased data sharing (Rowhani-Farid et al., 2017).
• Currently, 53 journals offer Open Science Badges to signal and reward when underlying data, materials, or preregistrations are available, see below. 

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Alright, I'm on board. What are the next steps?

• Each journal may choose to award badges based on a simple author disclosure statement or through independent peer review.
• The badges are free to use with attribution of their source. Download the images and get started now: https://osf.io/tvyxz/files/
• We offer examples of how to display badges on publications. As long as the badge image and disclosure statement are presented, you can display them any way you like. 

For questions, see this resources page and email us at badges@cos.io 

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Journals That Issue Open Science Badges

Addiction | Wiley
AIS Transactions on Replication Research | Elsevier
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry | APA
American Journal of Political Science | Wiley
American Journal of Primatology | Wiley
Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy (ASAP) | Wiley
Annual Review of Applied Linguistics | Cambridge University Press
Archive for the Psychology of Religion | Sage
Asian American Journal of Psychology | APA
Biometrical Journal | Wiley
BMC Microbiology (uses modified badge criteria) | BMC
BMJ Open Science | BMJ
Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology (CJEP) | APA
Clinical Psychological Science | APS
Cognitive Science | Wiley
Cortex | Elsevier
Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology | APA
Emerging Adulthood | SAGE
European Journal of Personality | Wiley
Evolution and Human Behavior | Elsevier
Geoscience Data Journal | Wiley
International Journal for the Psychology of Religion |  Taylor & Francis
International Journal of Primatology | Springer Nature
Internet Archaeology | University of York
Journal of Behavioral Public Administration (JBPA)
Journal of Cognition and Development | Taylor & Francis
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology | Elsevier

Journal of Counseling Psychology | APA
Journal of Neuroendocrinology | Wiley
Journal of Neurochemistry | Wiley
Journal of Neuroscience Research (JNR) | Wiley
Journal of Personality Assessment | Taylor & Francis
Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing | Wiley
Journal of Sleep Research | Wiley
Journal of Social Psychology | Taylor & Francis
Journal of Research in Personality | Elsevier
Language Learning | Wiley
Law and Human Behavior | APA
Management and Organization Review | Cambridge University Press
Meta-Psychology | Linnaeus University Press
Neuropsychology | APA
Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research | Psi Chi
Psychological Science | Sage
Psychological Methods | APA
Psychology of Men & Masculinity | APA
Psychology of Popular Media Culture | APA
Public Administration Review | ASPA
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology | Sage
Social Psychology | Hogrefe
Strategic Management Journal | Wiley
Studies in Second Language Acquisition | Cambridge University Press
The Modern Language Journal | Wiley
The Photogrammetric Record | Wiley