Do open science badges work? Estimating the effects of open science badges on an article’s social media attention and research impacts

Qianjin Zong (), Zhihong Huang and Jiaru Huang
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Qianjin Zong: South China Normal University
Zhihong Huang: South China Normal University
Jiaru Huang: South China Normal University

Scientometrics, 2023, vol. 128, issue 6, No 18, 3627-3648

Abstract: Abstract As a response to the replicability crisis, awarding open science badges was designed as an incentive for researchers to participate in open science practices (e.g., sharing data, sharing materials, and preregistration). Estimating the effectiveness (such as articles’ impacts) of the policy of awarding open science badges could address the concern of authors, journals, and open science stakeholders: do open science badges work? This study aimed to estimate the effects of open science badges on an article’s social media attention (measured by tweets) and research impacts (measured by citation counts). Articles published by Psychological Science during the period from 2014 to 2021 were selected as the sample (n = 1,161). Propensity score matching analysis was employed to examine the data. Data samples of different sizes and four other matching methods were used to check the robustness of the main results. Our results revealed that open science badges had a significant effect on social media attention, while they did not have a significant effect on the research impacts of an article.

Keywords: Open science; Preregistration; Open data; Open materials; Social impacts; Academic impacts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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