META-REP: A Meta-scientific Programme to Analyse and Optimise Replicability in the Behavioural, Social, and Cognitive Sciences (SPP 2317)
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oa_badge materials_small_color Kohrt, F., Smaldino, P. E., McElreath, R., & Schönbrodt, F. (2023). Replication of the natural selection of bad science. Royal Society Open Science, 10(2), 221306. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.221306

oa_badge data_small_color preregistered_small_color materials_small_color Breznau, N., Rinke, E., Wuttke, A., Nguyen, H. H. V., Adem, M., Adriaans, J., … Żółtak, T. (2022). How Many Replicators Does It Take to Achieve Reliability? Investigating Researcher Variability in a Crowdsourced Replication. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/j7qta

oa_badge preregistered_small_color Trübutschek, D.*, Yang, Y.*, Gianelli, C.*, Cesnaite, E., Fischer, N. L., Vinding, M. C., Marshall, T., Algermissen, J., Pascarella, A., Puolivali, T., Vitale, A., Busch, N. A.**, Nilsonne, G.** (2022). EEGManyPipelines: A Large-scale, Grassroots Multi-analyst Study of Electroencephalography Analysis Practices in the Wild. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 36(2), 217-224. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_02087
* shared first authorship
** shared senior authorship

Gollwitzer, M., & Schwabe, J. (2022). Context dependency as a predictor of replicability. Review of General Psychology, 26(2), 241-249. https://doi.org/10.1177/10892680211015635

Ankel-Peters, J., Vance, C., & Bensch, G. (2022). Spotlight on researcher decisions–Infrastructure evaluation, instrumental variables, and first-stage specification screening. Ruhr Economic Papers, 22(991). https://www.rwi-essen.de/fileadmin/user_upload/RWI/Publikationen/Ruhr_Economic_Papers/REP_22_991.pdf

oa_badge Paul, K., Short, C. A., Beauducel, A., Carsten, H. P., Härpfer, K., Hennig, J., ... & Wacker, J. (2022). The methodology and dataset of the coscience eeg-personality project–a large-scale, multi-laboratory project grounded in cooperative forking paths analysis. Personality Science, 3(1), e7177. https://doi.org/10.5964/ps.7177

oa_badge Ankel-Peters, J., Fiala, N., & Neubauer, F. (2023). Do Economists Replicate? Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 212, 219-232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2023.05.009

oa_badge materials_small_color Ankel-Peters, J., Fiala, N., & Neubauer, F. (2023b). Is Economics Self-correcting? Replications in the American Economic Review. Economic Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.13222

oa_badge data_small_color preregistered_small_color materials_small_color Krähmer, D., Schächtele, L., & Schneck, A. (2023). Care to share? Experimental evidence on code sharing behavior in the social sciences. Plos one, 18(8), e0289380. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0289380

Schneck, A. (2023). Are most published research findings false? Trends in statistical power, publication selection bias, and the false discovery rate in psychology (1975–2017). Plos one, 18(10), e0292717. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0292717

oa_badge data_small_color materials_small_color Kristanto, D., Gießing, C., Marek, M., Zhou, C., Debener, S., Thiel, C. M., & Hildebrandt, A. (2023). An Extended Active Learning Approach to Multiverse Analysis: Predictions of Latent Variables from Graph Theory Measures of the Human Connectome and Their Direct Replication. Brainiacs Journal of Brain Imaging and Computing Sciences, 4, Edoc J962E0F53. https://doi.org/10.48085/J962E0F53

oa_badge data_small_color materials_small_color Kristanto, D., Hildebrandt, A., Sommer, W., Zhou, C. (2023). Cognitive abilities are associated with specific conjunctions of structural and functional neural subnetworks. NeuroImage. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120304

Gießing, C. (2023). Identifying Reproducible Biomarkers of Autism Based on Functional Brain Connectivity. Biological Psychiatry, 94, 2-3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2023.04.021

oa_badge Nebe, S., Reutter, M., Baker, D.H., Bolte, J., Domes, G., Gamer, M., Gartner, A., Gießing, C., Gurr, C., Hilger, K., Jawinski, P., Kulke, L., Lischke, A., Markett, S., Meier, M., Merz, C.J., Popov, T., Puhlmann, L.M.C., Quintana, D.S., Schafer, T., Schubert, A.L., Sperl, M.F.J., Vehlen, A., Lonsdorf, T.B., & Feld, G.B. (2023). Enhancing precision in human neuroscience. Elife, 12. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.85980

oa_badge materials_small_color Burkhardt, M., & Gießing, C. (2023). A dynamic functional connectivity toolbox for multiverse analysis. bioRxiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.01.21.576546

Rausch, M., Hellmann, S., & Zehetleitner, M. (2023). Measures of metacognitive efficiency across cognitive models of decision confidence. Psychological methods, 10.1037/met0000634. Advance online publication. https://doi-org.emedien.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10.1037/met0000634

Leung, A. Y., & Schmalz, X. (2023). In search of proxy measures of heterogeneity in conceptual definitions: A cognitive linguistic perspective. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 45. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2c80j0rx

Schmalz, X., Biurrun Manresa, J., & Zhang, L. (2021, November 15). What Is a Bayes Factor?. Psychological Methods. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/met0000421

oa_badge data_small_color materials_small_color Jacobsen, N. S. J., Kristanto, D., Welp, S., Inceler, Y. C., & Debener, S. (2024). Preprocessing Choices for P3 Analyses with Mobile EEG: A Systematic Literature Review and Interactive Exploration. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.30.591874

Bißantz, S., Frick, S., Melinscak, F., Iliescu, D., & Wetzel, E. (2024). The potential of machine learning methods in psychological assessment and test construction. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 40(1), 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000817

oa_badge data_small_color materials_small_color Knöpfle, P., & Schatto-Eckrodt, T. (2024). The Challenges of Replicating Volatile Platform-Data Studies: Replicating Schatto-Eckrodt et al.(2020). Media and Communication, 12. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.7789

oa_badge Knöpfle, P., Haim, M., & Breuer, J. (2024). Ethics in Computational Communication Science: Between values and perspectives. https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/91769

oa_badge data_small_color materials_small_color Beinhauer, L.J., Fünderich, J.H., Renkewitz, F. (2024). Erroneous Generalization - Exploring Random Error Variance in Reliability Generalizations of Psychological Measurements. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ud9rb

oa_badge data_small_color materials_small_color Fuenderich, J., Beinhauer, L.J., & Renkewitz, F. (2024). Whoever has will be given more? How to use the intercept-slope correlation in improving our understanding of replicability, heterogeneity and theory development. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/s82zr

oa_badge data_small_color materials_small_color Frank, M. & Heene, M. (2024). The effect of suboptimal model choice - Ordinal modeling as a way to better understand effect size heterogeneity? https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/txnpg

oa_badge Brodeur, A., Esterling, K., Ankel-Peters, J., Dreber, A., Johanneson, M., Miguel, E., Green, D. & others. (2024). Promoting Reproducibility and Replicability in Political Science. Research & Politics. https://doi.org/10.1177/20531680241233439

oa_badge materials_small_color Breznau, N., & Nguyen, H. H. V. (2024). Enter The Theory Multiverse: Economizing Theory Development Through Meta-Analysis of Theories-as-Data. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/4dbau

Glöckner, A., Jekel, M., & Lisovoj, D. (in press). Using machine learning to evaluate and enhance models of probabilistic inference. Decision.

Rausch, M., & Hellmann, S. (2024). statConfR: An R Package for Static Models of Decision Confidence and Metacognition. PsyArXiv. https://osf.io/dk6mr/

Röseler, L., Kaiser, L., Doetsch, C. A., Klett, N., Seida, C., Schütz, A., . Rausch, M., . Zhang, Y. (2024). The Replication Database: Documenting the Replicability of Psychological Science. MetaArXiv. https://osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/me2ub

oa_badge data_small_color materials_small_color Knöpfle, P., Haim, M. & Breuer, J. (2024). Key topic or bare necessity? How Research Ethics are Addressed and Discussed in Computational Communication Science. Publizistik (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11616-024-00846-7

oa_badge Leung, A. Y., Melev, I., & Schmalz, X. (2024). Quantifying Concept Definition Heterogeneity in Academic Texts: Insights into Variability in Conceptualization. https://osf.io/preprints/osf/gu7b5

oa_badge materials_small_color Fünderich, J. H., Beinhauer, L. J., & Renkewitz, F. (2024). Reduce, reuse, recycle: Introducing MetaPipeX , a framework for analyses of multi‐lab data. Research Synthesis Methods, jrsm.1733. https://doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1733

oa_badge Breuer, J., & Haim, M. (2024). Are We Replicating Yet? Reproduction and Replication in Communication Research. Media and Communication, 12. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.8382

oa_badge data_small_color materials_small_color Kristanto, D., Burkhardt, M., Thiel, C. M., Debener, S., Gießing, C., & Hildebrandt, A. (2024). The multiverse of data preprocessing and analysis in graph-based fMRI: A systematic literature review of analytical choices fed into a decision support tool for informed analysis. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 105846. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105846

Special Issues and Topical Sections

oa_badge Breuer, J., & Haim, M. (Eds.) (2024). Reproducibility and Replicability in Communication Research. Special Issue on “Reproducibility and Replicability in Communication Research” in Media and Communication. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.i429

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In the META-REP program, we advocate for open, transparent, and reproducible research. To promote these goals, we identify Open Access, Open Data, Preregistration, and Open Material in our publications. Clicking on one of the the icons in the publication list above will take you directly to the corresponding resource.

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Applications

MetaPipeX

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The MetaPipeX Shiny App was developed as a tool to harmonize, analyze, visualize and document multi-lab data. The web-implementation of the app on servers of the Leibniz-Computing Centre (LRZ) allows you to explore the MetaPipeX framework without installing any software or R-packages. By using simulated data, you can explore its functionality immediately. A basic understanding of meta-analyses and multi-lab replications is required. For an introduction to the MetaPipeX framework, please consult our publication: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jrsm.1733

g-fMRI-METEOR

The g-fMRI-METEOR app allows navigating a knowledge space of data processing and analysis decisions to parameterize graph theory metrics describing the functional human connectome. The app is described in Kristanto et al. (2023) and is available at https://www.apps.meta-rep.lmu.de/METEOR/. The code and the data can be accessed via: https://github.com/kristantodan12/fMRI_Multiverse/

mEEG-METEOR

The mEEG-METEOR app allows navigating a knowledge space of data processing decisions to parameterize the P300 Event Related Potentials in studies collected with mobile EEG. The app is described in Jacobsen et al. (2023) and is available at https://meteor-eeg-oldenburg.shinyapps.io/eeg_multiverse/

Code & Implementations

COMET Toolbox

The COMET Toolbox, described in Burkhardt and Gießing (2023) is available at https://github.com/mibur1/dfc-multiverse. The toolbox currently allows the implementation of dynamic functional connectivity (dFC) analysis, graph analysis and multiverse analysis in dFC. It is modular, meaning that individual parts can be used in combination with others, but also on their own.

Extended Active Learning (AL) approach to Multiverse Analysis

The code for an Extended Active Learning (AL) approach to Multiverse Analysis, described in Kristanto et al. (2023) is available at https://github.com/kristantodan12/ExtendedAL. This is an extension of the AL approach proposed by Dafflon et al. (2022) as an alternative to exhaustively exploring all forking paths in the multiverse. The approach consists of quantifying the similarity of preprocessing and analysis pipelines, embedding this similarity in a low-dimensional space, and using an active learning algorithm based on Bayesian optimisation and Gaussian processes to approximate an exhaustive multiverse analysis. This approach was evaluated by Dafflon et al. (2022) and open code was provided for the prediction of an observed outcome variable. However, in computational psychiatry and neurocognitive psychology, where latent traits are conceptualized as common causes of a variety of observable behavioral symptoms, the prediction of dimensional latent traits is often of interest. We therefore extended the pipeline to predict a latent outcome variable. Another important advancement of the method was to implement the pipeline similarity estimates not only for region-specific (as in Dafflon et al., 2022), but also for brain-wide graph metrics characterizing the functional human connectome.