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ABSTRACT
Open Science practices are integral to increasing transparency, reproducibility, and accessibility of research in health psychology and behavioral medicine. Drives to facilitate Open Science practices are becoming increasingly evident in journal editorial policies, including the establishment of new paper formats such as Registered Reports and Data Notes. This paper provides: (i) an overview of the current state of Open Science policies within health psychology and behavioral medicine, (ii) a call for submissions to an Article Collection of Registered Reports and Data Notes as new paper formats within the journal of Health Psychology & Behavioral Medicine, (iii) an overview of Registered Reports and Data Notes, and (iv) practical considerations for authors and reviewers of Registered Reports and Data Notes.
Conflict of interest statement
All authors are committee members of the European Health Psychology Society's (EHPS) Open Science Special Interest Group. Emma Norris, Elaine Toomey and James Green are Associate Editors of Health Psychology & Behavioral Medicine.
Informed consent statement
No research was conducted in this paper.
Author contribution statement
Emma Norris: Conceptualization, Writing Original Draft, Writing – Review & Editing, Supervision. Elaine Toomey: Conceptualization, Writing Original Draft, Writing – Review & Editing, Supervision. Aoife O’Mahony: Writing Original Draft, Writing – Review & Editing. Rory Coyne: Writing Original Draft, Writing – Review & Editing. Tugce Varol: Writing Original Draft, Writing – Review & Editing. James A. Green: Writing Original Draft, Writing – Review & Editing. James Reynolds: Writing – Review & Editing.
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No data is associated with this paper.
Ethics statement
This paper received an exemption from an Institutional Ethics Committee; See details under Methods.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).