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Open Science in Developing Countries: A Collection of Practical Guides

About

This is a collaborative project that collected practical experiences and guides related to open science in developing countries. The direct output of this project is a collaborative paper for the journal Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (AMPPS). Ultimately, we hope this project will accelerate international collaborations. Also, we hope the practical guides will help researchers in developing countries to promote and implement open science practices in psychological science and related fields.

This project is partnered with the Chinese Open Science Network and FORRT

Contact

Dr. Hu Chuan-Peng, School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China. Email: hcp4715 AT hotmail DOT com.

Contributors

• 45 researchers contributed their perspectives of open science from 20 developing countries/regions in this practical guide.

Contributors:

• Hu Chuan-Peng
• Zhiqi Xu
• Aleksandra Lazić
• Piyali Bhattacharya
• Leonardo Seda
• Samiul Hossain
• Alma Jeftić
• Asil Ali Özdoğru
• Olavo B. Amaral
• Nadica Miljković
• Zlatomira G. Ilchovska
• Ljiljana B. Lazarevic
• Han-Wu-Shuang Bao
• Nikita Ghodke
• David Moreau
• Mahmoud Elsherif
• Chinchu C.
• Sakshi Ghai
• Clarissa F. D. Carneiro
• Danka Purić
• Yin Wang
• Mirela Zaneva
• Felipe Vilanova
• Iris Žeželj
• Obrad Vučkovac
• Saida Heshmati
• Pooja Kulkarni
• Nadia Saraí Corral-Frías
• Juan Diego García-Castro
• Shubham Pandey
• Jamal Amani Rad
• Thipparapu Rajesh
• Bita Vahdani
• Saad Almajed
• Amna Ben Amara
• Leher Singh
• Ali H. Al-Hoorie
• Marcelo Camargo Batistuzzo
• Daniel Fatori
• Frankie Fong
• Zahra Khorami
• Joseph Almazan
• Biljana Gjoneska
• Meng Liu
• Flavio Azevedo

Progress

• 2023-04-05, open call for contributors.

• 2023-07-26, identified topic leads (the 3rd meeting).

• 2024-04-05, drafts were ready for each topic.

• 2024-04-12, first draft of the whole paper was ready.

• 2024-04-22, started to restructure the first draft of the whole paper.

• 2024-10-15, final draft of the whole paper was ready and start polishing the figures.

• 2025-01-23, internal review started. We thank the following researchers for their valuable comments and suggestions: Dr. Chris Graham, Dr. Crystal Steltenpohl

• 2025-03-03, released the preprint and submitted to AMPPS.

• 2025-04-15, start to revise.

• 2025-06-17, finished revision. We thank the following early career researchers for their suggestions on the readability of this work: Yi-Ling Zhang, Jiawei Zhao, and Ziyang Zhao.

• 2025-08-18, published in AMPPS!

Conference presentations

• 2025-06-27 | SIPS 2025, Budapest, Hungary, Unconference: “A Collection of Practical Guides for Adopting Open Science Practices in Resource-Limited Settings”
• 2024-06-10 | SIPS 2024, Nairobi, Kenya, Hackathon: “Promoting Open Science in Developing Countries: A Practical Guide”
• 2023-10-23 | Big Team Science Conference 2023 (online) | # 24 Featured Panel. See program here.