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1 Department of Psychology, Fordham University, Bronx, New York, USA.
2 Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, USA.
3 Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Integrated Research and Treatment Center Adiposity Diseases, Behavioral Medicine Research Unit, Leipzig, Germany.
4 Center of Excellence in Eating and Weight Disorders, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
5 Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
6 Eating Disorders Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital and Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
7 Blackbird Initiative, Órama Institute for Mental Health and Well-Being, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
8 New York State Psychiatric Institute and Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.
9 Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
10 Department of Psychology, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, USA.
1 Department of Psychology, Fordham University, Bronx, New York, USA.
2 Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, USA.
3 Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Integrated Research and Treatment Center Adiposity Diseases, Behavioral Medicine Research Unit, Leipzig, Germany.
4 Center of Excellence in Eating and Weight Disorders, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
5 Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
6 Eating Disorders Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital and Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
7 Blackbird Initiative, Órama Institute for Mental Health and Well-Being, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
8 New York State Psychiatric Institute and Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.
9 Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
10 Department of Psychology, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, USA.
This editorial seeks to encourage the increased application of three open science practices in eating disorders research: Preregistration, Registered Reports, and the sharing of materials, data, and code. For each of these practices, we introduce updated International Journal of Eating Disorders author and reviewer guidance. Updates include the introduction of open science badges; specific instructions about how to improve transparency; and the introduction of Registered Reports of systematic or meta-analytical reviews. The editorial also seeks to encourage the study of open science practices. Open science practices pose considerable time and other resource burdens. Therefore, research is needed to help determine the value of these added burdens and to identify efficient strategies for implementing open science practices.
Keywords:
clinical trial preregistration; data sharing; eating disorder; material sharing; open access; open science; registered report; replication; reproducibility; transparency.
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