Ing. Mgr. Marek Vranka












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            Institute of communication studies and journalism

            Faculty of Social Sciences



            ORCID: 0000-0003-3413-9062 [ URL "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3413-9062"]
            OSF profile: osf.io/mk9cg [ URL "https://osf.io/mk9cg/"]





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            * What was the main stimulus for you to get engaged in Open Science and how has your relat
            developed?

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            In 2013, I started to take an interest in replication crisis in psychology and,
            along with my colleagues Štěpán Bahník [ URL "https://scholar.google.cz/citations?

            user=_QDo6AIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao"] and Eva Rubínová [ URL "https://scholar.go
            citations?user=KdVd-pAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao"] , we got involved in the first e
            international replication projects, ManyLabs [ URL "https://pless.cz/archives/368"] and RR

            "https://pless.cz/archives/478"] . Those projects naturally applied the open science proce
            preregistration of research plans and free sharing of materials, data, and analytical scri
            [ URL "https://osf.io/"] platform. Since the closeness and lack of transparency of science

            environment leading to the replication crisis, I perceived the open science practices prim
            to the restoration of credibility of research results. Later, I became familiar with the h
            aspects of the open science movement, such as the free access to publications, transparent

            science, or today, the frequently debated openness in the sense of sufficient representati
            from various groups in science. ?But for me, open science is still primarily about the tra
            of the research itself.??





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            * Which part of open science practice is your common routine?
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            In my research, I particularly try to use preregistration and sharing of materials, data, 
            in conducted studies. ?Data sharing?, in particular, seems to be a norm and a necessity to
            the branches of psychology, economics, and political sciences which are my areas of resear





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            * Why is the openness in science important to you (what are its benefits)?
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            Open science serves simply to improve quality – a mere possibility that your materials, da
            might be reviewed by someone else can serve as a guarantee that their author would be more
            course of their preparation and documentation. Another advantage can be that researchers c

            try to replicate the existing studies or continue and expand them. And last but not least,
            increases the risk of revealing scientific misconduct and would discourage at least part o
            fraudsters. 





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            * What would you recommend to your colleagues if they consider applying open science princ
            research practice?

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            The text 7 Easy Steps to Open Science [ URL "https://www.oercommons.org/courses/7-easy-ste
            science-an-annotated-reading-list/view"] can be a good introduction and a source of inspir

            recommendation is to create an account on the OSF [ URL "https://osf.io/"] platform and to
            platform for collaboration, storing materials and data, and preregistration of studies. Pr
            make?s? researchers consider in detail what and how is to be measured and analyzed. This m

            reveal problems at early stages and not later when the data has been collected and it woul
            correct anything. 




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            * What obstacles should be overcome in order to make open science a regular practice?
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            What I consider as one of the main barriers is the persisting emphasis on the results in t

            researchers. Unless the process is evaluated more than the results, there will be little i
            improve the process – and open science is more about a better process, sometimes at the ex
            number of? publications simply because, for example, data could not be easily massaged in 

            significant results. 




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            * What does open science mean to you in one sentence?

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            Open science is simply the science that is closer to what science should be like so that w
            results more.