Webinar: New Evidence on Reproducibility Across Social and Behavioral Research
When: April 16, 2026, from 19:00 (CEST)
Where: online
Reproducibility is one of the central topics in ongoing discussions about the credibility of science. But what do the results of large-scale empirical studies actually tell us – and what can we learn by looking at them together? That is the question at the heart of a webinar taking place on April 16, 2026, at 19:00 (CEST), hosted by Center for Open Science (COS) – a US-based nonprofit organization that develops tools and infrastructure for open and reproducible research, including the Open Science Framework (OSF).
The webinar brings together researchers from COS, the Institute for Replication (I4R), and the META-REP project. Each speaker will present findings from their respective study, followed by a joint discussion on where the results converge, where they diverge, and what the broader implications are for transparency and research credibility. There will also be an opportunity for audience Q&A.
The discussion draws on three studies:
- Investigating the reproducibility of the social and behavioural sciences (Tyner et al., 2026)
- Reproducibility and Robustness of Empirical Economics and Political Science Research (Brodeur et al., 2026)
- Code sharing and reproducibility in survey-based social research: evidence from a large-scale audit (Krähmer et al., 2026)
The webinar builds on the recently published findings of the SCORE (Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence) program – a large-scale collaboration involving 865 researchers examining multiple dimensions of research credibility across the social and behavioral sciences. The program’s outputs were published in Nature and a number of preprints. Learn more about the SCORE program’s findings here.
More information and webinar registration can be found here.
Last updated on April 13, 2026
