Articles reporting research on Latin American social movements are only rarely transparent.
Social movement scholars often want their research to make a difference beyond the academy. Readers will either read reports directly or they will read reviews that aggregate findings across a number of reports. In either case, readers must find reports to be credible before they will take their fin...
| Published in: | Social Movement Studies Vol. 17; no. 6; pp. 736 - 749 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Nov2018
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=133104415&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 133104415 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 14742837 J5V jtl: Social Movement Studies issn: 14742837 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Nov2018 vid: 17 iid: 6 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 133104415 10.1080/14742837.2018.1499511 ppf: 736 ppct: 13 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.5MB tig: atl: Articles reporting research on Latin American social movements are only rarely transparent. aug: au: Da Silva, Sven Tamás, Peter A. Kampen, Jarl K. affil: Sociology of Development and Change, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands Biometris, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands Statua, Dept Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Antwerp University, Antwerpen, Belgium su: Social sciences Social media Organizational transparency Social justice Transparency in government sug: subj: Social sciences Social media Organizational transparency Social justice Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities Transparency in government keyword: Latin America methodological transparency reporting standards social movements Systematic review Latin America methodological transparency reporting standards social movements Systematic review ab: Social movement scholars often want their research to make a difference beyond the academy. Readers will either read reports directly or they will read reviews that aggregate findings across a number of reports. In either case, readers must find reports to be credible before they will take their findings seriously. While it is not possible to predict the indicators of credibility used by individual, direct readers, formal systems of review do explicate indicators that determine whether a report will be recognized as credible for review. One such indicator, also relevant to pre-publication peer review, is methodological transparency: the extent to which readers are able to detect how research was done and why that made sense. This paper tests published primary research articles on and for social movements in Latin America for compliance with a generous interpretation of methodological transparency. We find that, for the most part, articles are not methodologically transparent. If transparency matters to social movement scholars, the research community may wish to formalize discussions of what aspects of research should be reported and how those reports should be structured. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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