ZBW, WZB, and RWI are pleased to invite submissions to the Leibniz Open Science Day 2024: Meta Perspectives in Social Sciences. With the growing importance of the social sciences in addressing societal challenges, the significance of a meta-scientific perspective is also on the rise. We need an enhanced understanding of how evidence is generated and communicated to society and policy. Replications and meta-studies in particular are becoming increasingly crucial to ensure the reliability and validity of research findings. These approaches help identify biases, improve methodological standards, and foster transparency, ultimately enhancing the credibility of scientific knowledge.
We particularly invite submissions on the reliability, credibility and generalizability of empirical work in the social sciences, but contributions on all meta-scientific topics in the social sciences are welcome, among others:
— Replications and robustness reproductions testing the internal or external validity of published work
— Quantitative meta-analyses
— Crowd-science studies (e.g., many-designs, many-analysts, many-labs, meta-reproductions)
— Heterogeneity studies (e.g., Population, Design, Analysis)
— Methodological meta-scientific studies
— Role of normative views in empirical work
The keynote lecture will be delivered by Harry Collins (Cardiff University).
The workshop will take place on November 25th, 2024, in Berlin (Vertretung des Landes Schleswig-Holstein beim Bund). We invite researchers to submit their extended abstracts (max. 750 words) via e-mail to Heike Henningsen (h.henningsen@zbw.eu) by September 15th, 2024. Notifications will be sent by September 30th, 2024. Limited travel assistance is available for junior researchers. Please indicate in your submission whether you will require funding.
Registration for non-presenters will be open in October.
Organizing committee:
Marianne Saam, ZBW and University of Hamburg
Doreen Siegfried, ZBW
Jörg Ankel-Peters, RWI
Macartan Humphreys, WZB
Levent Neyse, WZB
The Replication Network 