Adoption of Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines across Journals

Patarčić, Inga; Stojanovski, Jadranka (2022) Adoption of Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines across Journals. Publications, 10 (4). ISSN 2304-6775

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Abstract

Journal policies continuously evolve to enable knowledge sharing and support reproducible science. However, that change happens within a certain framework. Eight modular standards with three levels of increasing stringency make Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) guidelines which can be used to evaluate to what extent and with which stringency journals promote open science. Guidelines define standards for data citation, transparency of data, material, code and design and analysis, replication, plan and study pre-registration, and two effective interventions: “Registered reports” and “Open science badges”, and levels of adoption summed up across standards define journal’s TOP Factor. In this paper, we analysed the status of adoption of TOP guidelines across two thousand journals reported in the TOP Factor metrics. We show that the majority of the journals’ policies align with at least one of the TOP’s standards, most likely “Data citation” (70%) followed by “Data transparency” (19%). Two-thirds of adoptions of TOP standard are of the stringency Level 1 (less stringent), whereas only 9% is of the stringency Level 3. Adoption of TOP standards differs across science disciplines and multidisciplinary journals (N = 1505) and journals from social sciences (N = 1077) show the greatest number of adoptions. Improvement of the measures that journals take to implement open science practices could be done: (1) discipline-specific, (2) journals that have not yet adopted TOP guidelines could do so, (3) the stringency of adoptions could be increased.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	E-6354-2010
Uncontrolled Keywords:	transparency and openness promotion; TOP guidelines; TOP Factor; open science; publishing policies
Subjects:	SOCIAL SCIENCES > Information and Communication Sciences SOCIAL SCIENCES > Information and Communication Sciences > Information Systems and Information Science SOCIAL SCIENCES > Information and Communication Sciences > Library Science SOCIAL SCIENCES > Information and Communication Sciences > Journalism
Divisions:	Centre for scientific information
Depositing User:	Jadranka Stojanovski
Date Deposited:	09 Dec 2022 13:06
URI:	http://fulir.irb.hr/id/eprint/7736
DOI:	10.3390/publications10040046

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