CIS journals face the challenge of transparency and openness. An empirical study.

Updated at: 05/07/2022
In the context of the policy of opening up research data, what role for journals? The example of Communication and Information Sciences journals.

Authors : Joachim Schöpfel, Eric Kergosien, Stéphane Chaudiron, Bernard Jacquemin, Hélène Prost.

The open science policy confronts scientific journals with the challenge of research data. The National Open Science Plan published by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation in 2018 recommends, as part of public support for journals, the adoption of an open data policy associated with articles. This goal has been confirmed for the period 2021-2024. The Open Science Committee has published seven recommendations for journals that want to develop a data policy, and as part of its support for journals, the CNRS INSHS has included data sharing in the strongly recommended criteria for good editorial and open science practices.

What is the situation of journals in information and communication sciences (ICS)? What are their instructions to authors regarding citation and openness of research data, sharing of other materials (codes, data collection tools), and prospective reporting ("pre-registration") of analysis plans etc.?

Following the ten criteria of the Center for Open Science's TOP Factor, we evaluated the editorial policies of the 100 journals recognized by CNU Section 71, SFSIC and CPDirSIC, based on instructions to authors and other information available on the journals' websites. The analysis was conducted in February and March 2022.

These results are compared with the studies cited in the state of the art and especially with a similar analysis of 138 French journals in six SHS fields (archaeology, culture, geography, linguistics, psychology, sociology/political science), indexed in the Scopus database, that we conducted between November 2021 and February 2022.

The results were reported at the 8th Digital Document and Society conference "Scientific Communication and Open Science: Opportunities, Tensions and Paradoxes", June 23-24, 2022, in Liège (Belgium).

This dataset contains the data generated for this study.

 

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SCHOPFEL, Joachim; KERGOSIEN, Eric; CHAUDIRON, Stéphane; JACQUEMIN, Bernard; PROST, Hélène, 2022, "Données associées à la communication : Les revues SIC face à l’enjeu de la transparence et de l’ouverture. Une étude empirique", https://doi.org/10.57745/UETK3O, V1.
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