Open neilernst opened 4 years ago
Via @evomellor - David Mellor - at OSF, EMSE should decide on policies for RR studies. 1/2 are mandatory, 21 strongly recommended. The list includes
this is something EMSE and the open science panel should consider in more detail - pinging @robertfeldt @tzimmermsr
Many things here but with a quick readthrough of the list, for me, a draft "selection" would be:
I would default to "No" for most now as well.
@feigensp and I discussed the issue of meta-analyses and felt it was unlikely to be overwhelming, might be a good way to get started with registration, and we could use the topic filter to ensure they were relevant to MSR/EMSE. I wouldn't want to just have meta-reviews, but they are ok with us.
For 9, I think you mean "Yes" as my understanding is this is what is currently going on (all EMSE studies are unregistered by default).
For 17, I think that is the role of MSR/ICSME etc.
Personally I strongly believe in allowing qualitative approaches (20) if we get them ...
9: Hmm, but isn't 9 redundant given 8?
17: Ok, yes.
20: Qualitative studies is fine to include for me but you must ensure you have proper reviewing expertise to review them then. I guess you do, just making sure.
Meta-analyses should be fine but I'm more sceptical towards sysrevs and sysmaps; reviewing their protocols is fairly trivial (method already described in detail) and hard to see what it adds. Meta-analysis I can see a value, yes, but rarely is a sysrev actually a (statistical) meta-analysis IMHO. Maybe hard to make the distinction clear though?
Hello, I'm chiming in here for a few clarifying points.
You can see what other journals are doing for each of these policies here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D4_k-8C_UENTRtbPzXfhjEyu3BfLxdOsn9j-otrO870/edit#gid=0
When the decisions are finalized, we can provide you with author instructions that correspond to your selections (ie this completed template https://osf.io/pukzy )
Ok, the we are ok with "yes" on 9. Thanks for the clarification, David.
@neilernst will talk to OSF folks about getting EMSE/MSR approved(?) as journal following RR process, so authors can submit the IPA (in principle, stage 1 acceptance).