The BPSR has a data sharing policy whereby databases and metadata are made available on the journal’s website and the Harvard Dataverse. Authors whose articles are approved for publication must make their files available for replication.

In addition to making databases and metadata available on the BPSR website and the Harvard Dataverse, an important part of our data sharing policy concerns thorough checking of metadata and databases, with the aim of ensuring transparency and the replicability of the results presented in articles. All replication procedures are verified. Data and metadata assessments are sent to authors to request that any appropriate adjustments be made. The material is made available on the BPSR website and the Harvard Dataverse only after it has undergone this evaluation stage and after the article is published.

Upon submitting empirical articles, authors must agree to provide, when and if their submission is approved: (i) the database used for the analysis; (ii) the code dictionary describing the variables; and (iii) the script or detailed description of the analysis procedures and steps performed to produce each graph and/or table.

The database must be in a format that is easily accessible to conventional statistical software packages such as R, Stata, SPSS and Excel. The code dictionary shall indicate the name of the variable, its description and the data source. Where appropriate, code for analysis replication should be extensively commented. Where the article does not use statistical software that allows for the creation of a replication code, the authors should describe the steps one by one so that replication is possible.