In recent years, Psychological Science has adopted an “open practices” policy, which grants badges to articles that have made their data and research methods publicly available. However, are the badges accurately identifying reproducible studies, as Psychological Science intends them to?

Bradley Baker teamed up with researchers across the world to examine whether the studies that have received this badge were, in fact, reproducible. While Baker expected that not all articles would be reproducible, the findings indicate a concerningly high rate of badged studies that were not.