[ecrea] Conference CfP: "MZES Open Social Science Conference 2019"

***CfP: MZES Open Social Science Conference 2019: Practicing New 
Standards in Transparency and Reproducibility, University of Mannheim, 
Germany, 25-27 January 2019, submission deadlines: 27 July 2018 & 22 
August 2018***

Dear fellow communication scholars,

Please feel invited to come to the MZES Open Social Science Conference 
2019: Practicing New Standards in Transparency and Reproducibility, a 
conference designed to serve as a forum for practicing and discussing 
credibility, transparency, and replicability in the social sciences, 
explicitly including communication scholarship.

If you are interested in ways of making (y)our work more open and, thus, 
better, join us!

About a decade ago, John Ioannidis claimed that “most published research 
findings are false”. While seeming outrageous at the time, a growing 
body of meta-science research in the behavioral and social sciences 
substantiated this claim, causing uncertainty about the trustworthiness 
of published scientific findings. We believe that threats to the 
validity of published findings in the social sciences are widespread and 
systemic. Therefore, this conference promotes introspection about the 
current state of social science research and exchange on the 
opportunities for institutional and methodological improvement in the 
future.

The conference is supported by the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency 
in the Social Sciences (BITSS) and will take place from 25-27 January 
2019 in Mannheim, Germany. In collaboration with BITSS, we will offer an 
Open Science Workshop on the last day of the conference to build 
attendees practical open science skills.

Keynote speakers:
Jeremy Freese (Stanford University)
Thomas König (APSR, University of Mannheim)
Arthur Lupia (OSF, University of Michigan)
Julia Rohrer (100% CI, Leipzig University)

Participate in the conference:
• Give a talk: We call for researchers to advance discussion, debate, 
literature synthesis, or methods in open social science. We welcome 
methodological advances, e.g., p-curve analysis, systematic reviews, 
pre-analysis planning, and replication. We welcome general research 
findings that apply best practices of open science while conducting the 
research - Abstract submission DL: 22 August 2018 Read more
• MZES-GESIS Pre-Registration Challenge: We call for researchers to 
participate in a competition to win funding or survey time for the most 
innovative and rigorous pre-registration plan for a social science 
study. - Abstract submission DL: 22 August 2018
• OSSC19 Crowdsourced Replication Initiative: We call for researchers to 
replicate and expand a previously published cross-national 
macro-comparative study. The goal is to explore and develop 
crowdsourcing methods and generate research surpassing what a single 
researcher could achieve. The replication comes from the field of 
immigration and social policy, but we encourage social science 
researchers of all disciplines and levels to participate. All full 
participants will be co-authors on the final paper. - Registration DL: 
27 July 2018
• Participate as a guest in Mannheim during the conference or during the 
subsequent Open Science Workshop, offered in collaboration with the 
Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS). Or 
use the live stream online.

Organizing Committee:
Nate Breznau (MZES, University of Mannheim)
Eike Mark Rinke (MZES, University of Mannheim)
Alexander Wuttke (MZES, University of Mannheim)

Conference website: http://www.open-socsci.org/
Twitter: @opensocsci
#ossc19 <https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/ossc19?source=feed_text>


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