Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences

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Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences
HeadquartersBerkeley, California
Faculty Director
Edward Miguel
Parent organization
Center for Effective Global Action
Websitewww.bitss.org

The Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences, abbreviated BITSS, is an academic initiative dedicated to advancing

registered reports, supporting journals like the Journal of Development Economics
in taking up the review track.

In 2015, BITSS began awarding the annual Leamer-Rosenthal Prizes for Open Social Science to honor outstanding achievements and emerging leaders in promoting transparency in social science.

graduate students, faculty, librarians, and early career researchers to advance open science all over the world.[4] Their annual Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) provides an overview of and hands-on practice with tools and practices for transparent and reproducible social science research. Their Massive Open Online Course "Transparent and Open Social Science Research,” based on a UC Berkeley course taught by Edward Miguel, is available on the FutureLearn platform. In 2019, BITSS also began distributing copies of "Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research
," a textbook written by former BITSS Scientist Garret Christensen, Jeremy Freese, and Edward Miguel with support from BITSS, at their trainings and events.

BITSS has supported or led several metascience research projects including the State of Social Science (3S) study and the Social Science Meta-Analysis and Research Transparency (SSMART) portfolio.[5] BITSS also manages MetaArxiv, an interdisciplinary archive hosted on OSF Preprints of articles focused on metascience, research transparency, and reproducibility.

In recent years, BITSS has begun developing digital infrastructure to enable open science practices. The Social Science Prediction Platform (SSPP), launched in 2020, enables the systematic collection and assessment of expert forecasts of research results and the effects of untested social programs.[6] The Social Science Reproduction Platform (SSRP) crowdsources and catalogs attempts to assess and improve the computational reproducibility of social science research. The accompanying Guide for Accelerating Computational Reproducibility in the Social Sciences elucidates a common approach, terminology, and standards for conducting reproductions.[7] These platforms are part of a growing ecosystem of tools that expand opportunities to participate in the scientific endeavor.

BITSS has also incubated an initiative on Open Policy Analysis (OPA),[8] which seeks to strengthen connections between research and policy and reduce political polarization by translating open science practices to policy analysis. Led by Fernando Hoces de la Guardia, the OPA initiative has developed tools for US Senator Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax proposal and Evidence Action's Deworm the World program.

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References

  1. ^ "About". Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences. 2015-10-08. Retrieved 2018-10-19.
  2. PMID 24385620
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  3. ^ Yong, Ed (2015-12-10). "Make Science More Reliable, Win Cash Prizes". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2018-10-19.
  4. ^ "Catalysts". Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences. 2015-12-03. Retrieved 2018-10-19.
  5. S2CID 212826195. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help
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  6. S2CID 204882061
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  7. ^ Team, ACRE. Guide for Accelerating Computational Reproducibility in the Social Sciences | Guide for Accelerating Computational Reproducibility in the Social Sciences.
  8. ISSN 0302-3427
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