Leibniz Open Science Day 2024: Meta Perspectives in Social Sciences

Location: Landesvertretung Schleswig-Holstein, Berlin

Date: 25.11.2024

The Leibniz Open Science Day 2024: Meta Perspectives in Social Sciences addresses the growing importance of the social sciences in tackling societal challenges. A central aspect is the meta-scientific perspective, which enables a better understanding of how evidence is generated and communicated to society and policymakers. In particular, replications and meta-studies are becoming increasingly important. They help to identify bias, improve methodological standards, and promote transparency. This ultimately increases the credibility of scientific findings.

The Leibniz Open Science Day provides a platform for exchanging and discussing these important topics and invites scientists from social sciences to actively participate.

The Leibniz Open Science Day 2024: Meta Perspectives in Social Sciences invites submissions of research papers from various “meta” perspectives (among other replications, meta-analyses, crowd-science studies, and methodological studies on meta-science).

The one-day workshop will take place on November 25 in Berlin and is organized jointly by three institutes of the Leibniz Association: ZBW, RWI, and WZB.

Registration for non-presenters will be open in October.

Call for Papers

Leibniz Open Science Day 2024: Meta-Perspectives in Social Sciences

Deadline: September 15^th, 2024

ZBW, WZB, and RWI are pleased to invite submissions to the Leibniz Open Science Day 2024: Meta Perspectives in Social Sciences. With the growing importance of the social sciences in addressing societal challenges, the significance of a meta-scientific perspective is also on the rise. We need an enhanced understanding of how evidence is generated and communicated to society and policy. Replications and meta-studies in particular are becoming increasingly crucial to ensure the reliability and validity of research findings. These approaches help identify biases, improve methodological standards, and foster transparency, ultimately enhancing the credibility of scientific knowledge.

We particularly invite submissions on the reliability, credibility and generalizability of empirical work in the social sciences, but contributions on all meta-scientific topics in the social sciences are welcome, among others:

Replications and robustness reproductions testing the internal or external validity of published work
Quantitative meta-analyses
Crowd-science studies (e.g., many-designs, many-analysts, many-labs, meta-reproductions)
Heterogeneity studies (e.g., Population, Design, Analysis)
Methodological meta-scientific studies
Role of normative views in empirical work

The keynote lecture will be delivered by Harry Collins (Cardiff University).

The workshop will take place on November 25th, 2024, in Berlin (Vertretung des Landes Schleswig-Holstein beim Bund).

We invite researchers to submit their extended abstracts (max. 750 words) via e-mail to Heike Henningsen (h.henningsen@zbw.eu) by September 15th, 2024. Notifications will be sent by September 30th, 2024. Limited travel assistance is available for junior researchers. Please indicate in your submission whether you will require funding.