Exploring enablers and barriers to implementing the Transparency and Openness Promotion Guidelines : a theory-based survey of journal editors

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The Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines provide a framework to help journals develop open science policies. Theories of behaviour change can guide understanding of why journals do (not) implement open science policies and the development of interventions to improve these policies. In this study, we used the Theoretical Domains Framework to survey 88 journal editors on their capability, opportunity and motivation to implement TOP. Likert-scale questions assessed editor support for TOP, and enablers and barriers to implementing TOP. A qualitative question asked editors to provide reflections on their ratings. Most participating editors supported adopting TOP at their journal (71%) and perceived other editors in their discipline to support adopting TOP (57%). Most editors (93%) agreed their roles include maintaining policies that reflect current best practices. However, most editors (74%) did not see implementing TOP as a high priority compared with other editorial responsibilities. Qualitative responses expressed structural barriers to implementing TOP (e.g. lack of time, resources and authority to implement changes) and varying support for TOP depending on study type, open science standard, and level of implementation. We discuss how these findings could inform the development of theoretically guided interventions to increase open science policies, procedures and practices.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

Royal Society open science - 10(2023), 2 vom: 25. Feb., Seite 221093

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Naaman, Kevin [VerfasserIn]
Grant, Sean [VerfasserIn]
Kianersi, Sina [VerfasserIn]
Supplee, Lauren [VerfasserIn]
Henschel, Beate [VerfasserIn]
Mayo-Wilson, Evan [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Behaviour change
Journal Article
Journal editors
Open science
Reproducibility
Top Guidelines
Transparency

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Date Revised 29.03.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

figshare: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.6403446

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1098/rsos.221093

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM352659033