Open developmental science: An overview and annotated reading list

Abstract

The increasing adoption of open science practices in the last decade has been changing the scientific landscape across fields. However, developmental science has been relatively slow in adopting open science practices. To address this issue, we followed the format of Crüwell et al., (2019) and created summaries and an annotated list of informative and actionable resources discussing ten topics in developmental science: Open science; Reproducibility and replication; Open data, materials and code; Open access; Preregistration; Registered reports; Replication; Incentives; Collaborative developmental science. This article offers researchers and students in developmental science a starting point for understanding how open science intersects with developmental science. After getting familiarized with this article, the developmental scientist should understand the core tenets of open and reproducible developmental science, and feel motivated to start applying open science practices in their workflow.

Lessons learned: A neuroimaging research center's transition to open and reproducible science

“…While there is growing recognition of the imperative of implementing these best practices there exits, in our opinion, a clear absence of how procedurally to accomplish this goal (Paret et al, 2022). This potential barrier to widespread adoption of open science practices is echoed for other fields (Kalandadze and Hart, 2022). In this work, we describe lessons learned from efforts to adopt these best practices within the Brain Imaging Research Center (BIRC) at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences over 4 years (July 2018-May 2022.…”

Open science and metascience in developmental psychology: Introduction to the special issue

“…Luckily, this special issue includes several helpful 'how-to' guides! Kalandadze and Hart (2022) One theme that stands out is the importance of generalisabilityhow applicable a study's results are to broader groups of people, settings or situations (Kukull & Ganguli, 2012;Parsons et al, 2022). Two papers in this special issue focus on generalisability to broader groups of people.…”

“…Rochios and Richmond (2022) Special issues focused on open science have historically been very important in shaping developmental psychology. In fact, two of the key articles included in the annotated reading list by Kalandadze and Hart (2022) are actually from a previous special issue on 'Replicability, Collaboration, and Best Practices in Infancy Research' at Infant Behavior and Development (Davis-Kean & Ellis, 2019;Lundwall, 2019). Similarly, the Registered Reports format (Chambers & Tzavella, 2021) has been introduced to developmental audiences through special issues (Syed et al, 2023;Syed & Donnellan, 2020), including one soon to be published in Infant and Child Development.…”

“…Luckily, this special issue includes several helpful ‘how‐to’ guides! Kalandadze and Hart (2022) is a great place to start, with an annotated reading list on open developmental science. Turoman et al (2022) present a workflow for applying open science principles in a developmental psychology lab, using their own lab as an example.…”

Special issue on reliability of infant research

“…The brief paper ended up being nothing of the sort, and was highly engaging, thoughtful, and timely. Although developmentalists have certainly engaged with the issues associated with the replication crisis and open science movement (see Kalandadze & Hart, 2022), in some ways, the full implications of the many problems facing our science have not been appreciated widely. Byers-Heinlein et al (2022) provide a valuable service to the field by offering a detailed accounting of the problems of reliability in infant research and-perhaps more importantly-providing clear and achievable solutions (six of them, even!…”