Qualitative Transparency Deliberations

Several scholars weighed in on practices related to the documentation of text-based sources in Stage I of the QTD process. I have included below links to some posts that are relevant to the topics discussed in this thread: Active citation versus the meaty footnote: Response 1 , Response 2 , Response...

I have included below links to some posts from Stage I of the QTD process that are relevant to this thread: Inviting input on specific transparency practices No place for my work in this debate Preregistration (or lack thereof) What might qualitative data access look like? Interview-based research a...

A number of scholars weighed in on the costs and benefits of specific transparency practices pertaining to text-based sources in Stage I of the QTD process. I have included below links to some threads that are particularly relevant to the topics discussed in this thread: Active citation versus the m...

The guest post quoted below, Taylor's response to it, and Amy's follow-up post all make excellent points. One question that arises from this discussion is whether the TRAX (or a similar type of documentation) should be required of researchers, or whether it should be a recommended practice, or wheth...

Thank you for sharing these very helpful perspectives, Ingo, Shamira, Jacques, and Guest. This is an important point. The problem that transparency is supposed to be addressing isn't at all clear, and yet the costs of increasing transparency - especially for qualitative scholars - are potentially qu...

I would like to follow up on this important set of questions. It is worth distinguishing between two forms of transparency-related online documentation. The first is the online appendix. As Taylor Boas mentioned, online appendices can afford qualitative and multi-methods scholars facing publishing-r...

Thank you for these very helpful suggestions, Taylor. This is Taylor Boas from Boston University, posting as "Guest" since I don't have a login. I'm just reviewing this discussion now. There are a lot of ideas circulating, but I think one of the clearest concerns how to convey details rega...

Thank you for your perspectives, Sam, Ingo, and Jane. At least two distinct tradeoffs appear to emerge in the discussion of the costs and benefits of a TRAX. One pertains to the journal publication and review process. A TRAX might increase the strength of a manuscript and give reviewers (and authors...

Thank you, Marcus, for sharing this helpful information about how historians use footnotes in their research. To summarize, it seems as if the one consistent practice is the inclusion of page numbers with references. I wanted to draw attention to one question that came up repeatedly in the Stage One...

To get the conversation about "costs" of transparency started, I would like to point out one replication drawback potentially faced by scholars relying on historical text-based sources from archives. Many archives have strict limits on the number of documents that any one scholar can photo...

I see several important benefits of increasing transparency for both text-based and non-text-based sources. To start the conversation, one major advantage of increased transparency is that it can help provide consumers of research with contextual information that can, in turn, help them evaluate or ...

When you cite your sources, what types of information do you include either in-text or in the associated footnotes/endnotes in order to help readers understand how the evidence you are using supports the analytical, descriptive, or causal claims you are making? What types of information, and how muc...

What types of sources do you use? Text-based sources might include archival materials collected by public authorities, papers from private collections, newspaper articles, notes from interviews, etc. Non-text-based sources might include photographs, transcripts of radio broadcasts, videos, websites...

I would like to expand a little bit more on Mala Htun's third point about journal word limits and supplementary appendices. First of all, I agree that word/page limits in journals such as AJPS and JOP are simply too low to permit meaty footnotes and other forms of extensive citations that provide fu...

Thank you for what has proved to be a very thought-provoking set of discussions thus far. This thread asks us to think about the aspects of research transparency that could benefit from differentiated deliberations. My preferred approach is a hybrid approach, in which some working groups will focus ...