PIXNIOStudySwap, a platform hosted on the Center for Open Science’s Open Science Framework site, enables users to post their research “haves” and “needs,” with the goal of helping scientists exchange resources and find suitable collaborators for replication studies. After launching in beta late last month, StudySwap has already catalyzed a potential collaboration.
Initially, the platform was intended to broker pre-publication independent replications, explained Christopher Chartier, a psychologist at Ashland University in Ohio who helped create the resource. Quickly, however, Chartier and colleagues realized that StudySwap might also be useful for other types of collaborations. For instance, scientists with spare research participants might post an offer to share the surplus of study volunteers under “haves.”
The platform was born out of a discussion during the inaugural meeting of the Society for Improvement of Psychological Science, held at the Center for Open Science in Charlottesville, Virginia, last June.
According to Chartier, StudySwap was also in part inspired by a pre-publication independent replication endeavor, in which psychologist Martin Schweinsberg and colleagues requested replication experiments from 25 teams before they submitted ...
