Social Science Data Editors

Improving reproducibility in the social and economic sciences

The Social Science Data Editors (SSDE) is a group of data and reproducibility editors that loosely coordinate approaches to transparency, reproducibility, and availability of research data and code. While we all independently implement policies that are defined by our learned societies and journals, the group discusses and tries to find consensus on various topics, including best practices for authors, for journals, and for ourselves. The current list can be found on our members page. If you are interested in joining, see the Contact section below.

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 Slack channel for data and reproducibility editors. A more active working group meets monthly on Zoom, and maintains these resources.

  • to join either meeting space, contact Lars Vilhuber. Meetings are currently fourth Thursday of the month, 10:00AM Eastern/16:00 Central European time.