It’s been two years since the European Journal of Personality adopted a new policy that was geared towards increasing Open Science practices in manuscripts submitted to and published in the journal. In this post, we take a quick look at how it’s going.
In 2016, 2% of published empirical articles in the European Journal of Personality had one or more open science badges. In 2017, this percentage increased to 47%, and continued to increase in 2018, with 68% of our published empirical articles earning one or more badges. This means that we saw a 44% jump in the percentage of empirical papers published with one or more open science badges from 2016 to 2017, and a 21% increase from 2017 to 2018!
Note. 42, 30, and 31 articles were published in the European Journal of Personality in 2016, 2017, and 2018, respectively.
We now turn to the percentage of empirical articles submitted to the European Journal of Personality. In 2016, 39% of submitted empirical articles had one or more badges. In 2017, this percentage increased to 54%, and continued to 100% in 2018! This means that we saw a 15% increase in the percentage of empirical papers submitted with one or more open science badges from 2016 to 2017, and a 46% jump from 2017 to 2018 such that all 2018 submissions to the journal that have been published so far have one or more badges. A positive trend, indeed!
Note. 23, 34, and 5 published articles were submitted to the European Journal of Personality in 2016, 2017, and 2018, respectively.