Are You Open? A Content Analysis of Transparency and Openness Guidelines in HCI Journals
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Title of host publication | CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’21), |
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Date | Accepted/In press - 21 Jan 2021 |
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Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
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Original language | English |
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Within the wider open science reform movement, HCI researchers are actively debating how to foster transparency in their own field. Publication venues play a crucial role in instituting open science practices, especially journals, whose procedures arguably lend themselves better to them than conferences. Yet we know lit- tle about how much HCI journals presently support open science practices. We identified the 51 most frequently published-in jour- nals by recent CHI first authors and coded them according to the Transparency and Openness Promotion guidelines, a high-profile standard of evaluating editorial practices. Results indicate that jour- nals in our sample currently do not set or specify clear openness and transparency standards. Out of a maximum of 29, the modal score was 0 (mean = 2.5, SD = 3.6, max = 15). We discuss potential reasons, the aptness of natural science-based guidelines for HCI, and next steps for the HCI community in furthering openness and transparency.
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