2020 Journals Catalog - 5

OPEN SCIENCE AT APA PUBLISHING | 5

APA SUPPORTS OPENNESS AND RIGOR
IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
APA Style JARS

Data Sharing

APA Style Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS)

Sharing research data promotes scientific progress,

provide researchers in psychology with a structured

allowing replication, reanalysis, and generalizability

guide to communicate important aspects of their

testing. APA offers authors the option to share data

research. Created by psychologists, the standards aim to

publicly via our own repository in partnership with the

enhance the quality of published research by promoting

Center for Open Science.

transparency and facilitating the assessment of rigor.

Public Significance Statements
Open Science Badges

APA is committed to bringing research to the public.

Partnering with the Center for Open Science, many

Along with article abstracts, many APA Journals publish

APA journals offer Open Science Badges to recognize

public significance statements summarizing the

open science practices. Authors who share their data or

significance of a study's findings for all interested readers.

materials publicly, or who preregister their studies or
analysis plans, may apply for one or more badges.

Replications
Replication studies build on previously published
science, and many APA Journals are leading the way in
publishing them. For example, the Journal of Personality
and Social Psychology encourages submissions of direct
replications, looking not at novelty but at the theoretical

Preprints

importance of the finding being replicated and the

Knowing that many researchers wish to make their

statistical power of the replication study.

research publicly available quickly, APA Journals has
designated PsyArXiv as the preferred preprint server
for APA journals. This archive of psychological research
allows researchers to post documents, including
working papers, unpublished work, and preprints,
making them freely available to other researchers and
to the public.

Registered Trials and Preregistered Studies
Clinical trial registration can help ensure transparency
in reporting results. For example, Health Psychology
requires registration of clinical trials published in its
pages and encourages authors to make their protocols
publicly available. Likewise, preregistration ensures rigor
and transparency. A growing number of APA journals
offer badges recognizing preregistration of studies and/or
analysis plans.

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