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Grant, Sean https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7775-3022
Corker, Katherine S. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7971-1678
Mellor, David https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3125-5888
Stewart, Suzanne L. K. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2152-0091
Mayo-Wilson, Evan https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6126-2459
Cashin, Aidan G. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4190-7912
Lagisz, Malgorzata https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3993-6127
Moher, David https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2434-4206
Umpierre, Daniel https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6953-0163
Barbour, Virginia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2358-2440
Buck, Stuart https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8111-3239
Collins, Gary S. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2772-2316
Hazlett, Haley F. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9937-435X
Hrynaszkiewicz, Iain https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9673-5559
Lee, Carole J. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5323-9205
Parker, Timothy H. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2995-5284
Rethlefsen, Melissa L. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5322-9368
Toomey, Elaine https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5941-0838
Nosek, Brian A. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6797-5476
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Article History
Received: 21 March 2026
Accepted: 23 May 2026
First Online: 5 August 2026
Declarations
Competing interests: BAN and D. Mellor are employees of the nonprofit Center for Open Science that has a mission to increase openness, integrity, and reproducibility of research. KSC is an employee of ASAPbio, which is a scientist-driven non-profit promoting transparency and innovation in life science communication, and she was previously a paid consultant of the Center for Open Science. VB is editor-in-chief of the Medical Journal of Australia, co-chair of DORA, and a former chair of COPE. CL is on the Board of Directors for Rapid Science and previously served on the Board of Directors for ASAPbio. D. Moher is developing an extension to TOP for academic institutions. EM-W received previous support for research about the TOP Guidelines from Arnold Ventures (formerly the Laura and John Arnold Foundation). THP has led a project that received grant support (from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation and NSF award number DEB - 1548207) to promote the adoption of the TOP guidelines in ecology and evolutionary biology, and has served in leadership positions in SORTEE, an organization devoted to promoting open, reliable, and transparent ecology and evolutionary biology. SG is the Methodological Transparency Editor at Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, has received previous support for research about the TOP Guidelines from Arnold Ventures (formerly the Laura and John Arnold Foundation), and has received honoraria in the last three years from the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences, Federation of American Scientists, International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, and University of South Dakota. IH is an employee of PLOS, which publishes open access journals, and is responsible for promoting the adoption of Open Science practices and policies. DU serves as the protocol editor for Systematic Reviews, a journal under Springer Nature. MLR has received funding from the Medical Library Association and the Baltic-American Freedom Foundation to teach about the PRISMA-S reporting guideline, for which she was the lead author, and received the NINDS Rigor Champions Prize for her work promoting research reproducibility. ML serves in leadership positions in SORTEE, an organization devoted to promoting open, reliable, and transparent ecology and evolutionary biology. The remaining authors have nothing to declare.
