A consensus-based transparency checklist

Balazs Aczel; Barnabas Szaszi; Alexandra Sarafoglou; Zoltan Kekecs; Šimon Kucharský; Daniel Benjamin; Christopher D Chambers; Agneta Fisher; Andrew Gelman; Morton A Gernsbacher; John P Ioannidis; Eric Johnson; Kai Jonas; Stavroula Kousta; Scott O Lilienfeld; D Stephen Lindsay; Candice C Morey; Marcus Munafò; Benjamin R Newell; Harold Pashler; David R Shanks; Daniel J Simons; Jelte M Wicherts; Dolores Albarracin; Nicole D Anderson; John Antonakis; Hal R Arkes; Mitja D Back; George C Banks; Christopher Beevers; Andrew A Bennett; Wiebke Bleidorn; Ty W Boyer; Cristina Cacciari; Alice S Carter; Joseph Cesario; Charles Clifton; Ronán M Conroy; Mike Cortese; Fiammetta Cosci; Nelson Cowan; Jarret Crawford; Eveline A Crone; John Curtin; Randall Engle; Simon Farrell; Pasco Fearon; Mark Fichman; Willem Frankenhuis; Alexandra M Freund; M Gareth Gaskell; Roger Giner-Sorolla; Don P Green; Robert L Greene; Lisa L Harlow; Fernando Hoces de la Guardia; Derek Isaacowitz; Janet Kolodner; Debra Lieberman; Gordon D Logan; Wendy B Mendes; Lea Moersdorf; Brendan Nyhan; Jeffrey Pollack; Christopher Sullivan; Simine Vazire; Eric-Jan Wagenmakers

doi:10.1038/s41562-019-0772-6

A consensus-based transparency checklist

Nat Hum Behav. 2020 Jan;4(1):4-6. doi: 10.1038/s41562-019-0772-6.

Authors

Balazs Aczel¹, Barnabas Szaszi², Alexandra Sarafoglou³, Zoltan Kekecs², Šimon Kucharský³, Daniel Benjamin⁴, Christopher D Chambers⁵, Agneta Fisher³, Andrew Gelman⁶, Morton A Gernsbacher⁷, John P Ioannidis⁸, Eric Johnson⁶, Kai Jonas⁹, Stavroula Kousta¹⁰, Scott O Lilienfeld^{11

12}, D Stephen Lindsay¹³, Candice C Morey⁵, Marcus Munafò¹⁴, Benjamin R Newell¹⁵, Harold Pashler¹⁶, David R Shanks¹⁷, Daniel J Simons¹⁸, Jelte M Wicherts¹⁹, Dolores Albarracin¹⁸, Nicole D Anderson²⁰, John Antonakis²¹, Hal R Arkes²², Mitja D Back²³, George C Banks²⁴, Christopher Beevers²⁵, Andrew A Bennett²⁶, Wiebke Bleidorn²⁷, Ty W Boyer²⁸, Cristina Cacciari²⁹, Alice S Carter³⁰, Joseph Cesario³¹, Charles Clifton³², Ronán M Conroy³³, Mike Cortese³⁴, Fiammetta Cosci³⁵, Nelson Cowan³⁶, Jarret Crawford³⁷, Eveline A Crone³⁸, John Curtin⁷, Randall Engle³⁹, Simon Farrell⁴⁰, Pasco Fearon¹⁷, Mark Fichman⁴¹, Willem Frankenhuis⁴², Alexandra M Freund⁴³, M Gareth Gaskell⁴⁴, Roger Giner-Sorolla⁴⁵, Don P Green⁶, Robert L Greene⁴⁶, Lisa L Harlow⁴⁷, Fernando Hoces de la Guardia⁴⁸, Derek Isaacowitz⁴⁹, Janet Kolodner⁵⁰, Debra Lieberman⁵¹, Gordon D Logan⁵², Wendy B Mendes⁵³, Lea Moersdorf⁴³, Brendan Nyhan⁵⁴, Jeffrey Pollack⁵⁵, Christopher Sullivan⁵⁶, Simine Vazire²⁷, Eric-Jan Wagenmakers³

Affiliations

¹ ELTE, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary. aczel.balazs@ppk.elte.hu.
² ELTE, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary.
³ University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
⁴ University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
⁵ Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.
⁶ Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
⁷ University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
⁸ Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
⁹ Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands.
¹⁰ Nature Human Behaviour, Springer Nature, London, UK.
¹¹ Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
¹² University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
¹³ University of Victoria, Saanich, British Columbia, Canada.
¹⁴ University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
¹⁵ University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
¹⁶ University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
¹⁷ University College London, London, UK.
¹⁸ University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA.
¹⁹ Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands.
²⁰ Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
²¹ University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
²² Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
²³ University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
²⁴ University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA.
²⁵ University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
²⁶ Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA.
²⁷ University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
²⁸ Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, USA.
²⁹ University of Modena-Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy.
³⁰ University of Massachusetts, Boston, Boston, MA, USA.
³¹ Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.
³² University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA.
³³ Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
³⁴ University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, NE, USA.
³⁵ University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
³⁶ University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
³⁷ The College of New Jersey, Ewing Township, NJ, USA.
³⁸ Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands.
³⁹ Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
⁴⁰ University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
⁴¹ Carnegie Mellon University, New York, NY, USA.
⁴² Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
⁴³ University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
⁴⁴ University of York, York, UK.
⁴⁵ University of Kent, Kent, UK.
⁴⁶ Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.
⁴⁷ University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI, USA.
⁴⁸ University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
⁴⁹ Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
⁵⁰ Boston College, Boston, MA, USA.
⁵¹ University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA.
⁵² Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
⁵³ University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁵⁴ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
⁵⁵ North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.
⁵⁶ University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA.

Abstract

We present a consensus-based checklist to improve and document the transparency of research reports in social and behavioural research. An accompanying online application allows users to complete the form and generate a report that they can submit with their manuscript or post to a public repository.

MeSH terms

Behavioral Research / standards*
Checklist*
Consensus*
Delphi Technique
Guidelines as Topic
Humans
Information Dissemination
Periodicals as Topic
Social Sciences / standards*

Grants and funding

MC_UU_00011/7/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom