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A new journal metric is being introduced<\/a> that will rank academic journals based on their commitment to research transparency and reproducibility, rather than traditionally used citation counts. The TOP Factor<\/a>, launched by the Center for Open Science<\/a>, will assess journal policies according to their compliance with the eight standards of the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines<\/a>, for which there are three increasing levels of stringency.<\/p>\n The eight standards of the TOP Guidelines are designed to reflect behaviours that can improve transparency and reproducibility of research, covering the following elements:<\/p>\n The new metric rewards journals that publish articles that adhere to these core scientific values. As noted by Simine Vazire, Professor of Psychology at UC Davis<\/a> and Editor-in-Chief at the psychology journal Collabra<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cTransparency is not the same thing as quality, but it is a necessary precondition for evaluating quality\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n In addition to the eight TOP Guideline indicators, journals will also be assessed on whether they offer Registered Reports<\/a>, which aim to reduce publication bias against negative findings by allowing study design peer review before data are analysed, and Open Science Badges<\/a> that mark the availability of shared data, materials and preregistered study designs.<\/p>\n So far, over 250 journals publishing in the fields of psychology, economics, education and general science have been evaluated and are presented on the TOP Factor website<\/a>. One of the key differentiators of the TOP Factor from journal impact factor is that the former provides a searchable, modular set of indicators of journal policies promoting good research practices, rather than a single number. Another distinguishing feature is that, in principle, all journals could achieve the top score, with TOP Factor envisaged as a rating system rather than a way of ranking journals. Indeed, the goal is that releasing journal TOP factors will encourage journals to improve their open science policies.<\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2013<\/p>\n Summary by\u00a0Julianna Solomons PhD, CMPP<\/a> from\u00a0Aspire Scientific<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2013<\/p>\n With thanks to our sponsors, Aspire Scientific Ltd<\/a> and NetworkPharma Ltd<\/a><\/p>\n Find out more about the TOP Factor, an alternative metric to the impact factor, evaluating academic journals based on open science policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The #TOPFactor: a new journal metric to assess transparency and reproducibility policies @OSFramework #PubPlan #medcomms #ISMPP","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_publicize_connection_overrides":[],"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[108513023,30399336,3267153,16950752],"tags":[343162455,343162437,343162556],"class_list":["post-6567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journal-selection","category-journal-metrics","category-reproducibility","category-data-transparency","tag-impact-factor","tag-open-science","tag-reproducibility","post-has-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/TOP-Factor-transparency-.jpg?fit=701%2C498&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Yk5l-1HV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6567"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6580,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567\/revisions\/6580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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