Multilingualism Research Forum: Assessment of Transparent Research Practices in Linguistics

Agata Bochynska (Open Research section, University of Oslo Library) will present and discuss assessment of transparency practices in linguistics and provide recommendations and solutions for increasing the transparency of linguistics research.

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Abstract

By becoming increasingly empirical and quantitative, linguistics have been facing challenges and limitations that pose barriers to research reproducibility and replicability. One of the proposed solutions to the reproducibility and replicability crisis have been transparency practices, e.g. open access publishing, preregistrations, sharing study materials, data, and analyses, performing study replications and declaring conflicts of interest. With a team of researchers from different sub-disciplines of linguistics we have assessed the prevalence of these practices in randomly sampled 600 journal articles from linguistics across two time points. In the talk, we will present the main results from the assessment together with recommendations and solutions for facilitating adoption of transparency practices in the field.

Bio

Dr Agata Bochynska is a psychologist and a linguist with a background in experimental research on language and cognitive development in diverse populations, including infants, children, adults and individuals with developmental disorders. Currently, she works on implementing and teaching open science practices and reproducible research at the University of Oslo, Norway.

 

Published June 15, 2023 1:03 PM - Last modified June 16, 2023 12:29 PM