Can Our Claims be Verified? Open Science Practices in Information Systems Research

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Academic research, as a social system, functions as a market between research producers and research consumers. Conventionally, this market introduces information asymmetries between these market participants—research producers know far more about a study than research consumers. This asymmetry can erode trust in the credibility of findings. Transparency, through open science practices, can enable readers to evaluate the credibility of a claim and, by reducing this information asymmetry, promote confidence in our findings. This paper discusses factors that can undermine trust in the credibility of findings, introduces key open science practices that are broadly applicable for IS, considers the current discourses on these practices in IS, and systematically reviews the level of adoption of open science practices in IS as is evident in empirical, quantitative articles published in the Senior Scholars Basket of Eight Journals. This investigation provides a baseline for the adoption of open science practices in our discipline and gives insight into the extent to which claims in IS research can be assessed. The results of the evaluation suggest that, prior to recent reforms, there exists a substantial degree of information asymmetry and a serious neglect of transparency in IS research. Transparency is a necessary component for the continued growth of IS as a credible science and considerable reform is required.

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