Social Science Data Editors

Improving reproducibility in the social and economic sciences

Data and Code Availability Standard

The Data and Code Availability Standard (DCAS) is a standard for sharing research code and data, endorsed by leading journals in social sciences. See https://datacodestandard.org/ for more information.

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README template

SSDE also provides a template README incorporating best practices at social science journals, derived from reviewing over 2,500 replication packages.

The most recent version is available at https://social-science-data-editors.github.io/template_README/.

DOI

When using, please cite as

Lars Vilhuber, Connolly, Marie, Koren, Miklós, Llull, Joan, and Morrow, Peter. 2022. “A Template README for Social Science Replication Packages”. v1.1. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7293838.

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Guidance for Authors

(under development)

We provide guidance to authors who wish to create replication packages.

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Reference materials

Various useful pieces of information, such as terms of use for various data sources, repositories that may not be known as “trusted” in a formal sense, but which are robust enought to satisfy data editors’ needs, and other information.

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Participating

We have a (low-intensity) mailing list for data and reproducibility editors, and a more active working group that meets monthly, and maintains these resources. We use a mailing list for discussion.

  • to join general list, send email to socsci-data-editors-l-request@cornell.edu with subject line “join”. Approval required. You might contact any one of the working group members prior to sending the email.
  • to join the active working group, contact Lars Vilhuber. Meetings are usually first Monday of the month, 11:00AM Eastern/17:00 Central European time.
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