Worries about a “credibility crisis” besieging science have ignited interest in research
transparency and reproducibility as ways of restoring trust in published research. For
quantitative social science, advances in transparency and reproducibility can be seen as a
set of developments whose trajectory predates the recent alarm. We discuss several of these
developments, including preregistration, data-sharing, formal infrastructure in the form of
resources and policies, open access to research, and specificity regarding research …