Open and reproducible neuroimaging: From study inception to publication

Guiomar Niso; Rotem Botvinik-Nezer; Stefan Appelhoff; Alejandro De La Vega; Oscar Esteban; Joset A Etzel; Karolina Finc; Melanie Ganz; Rémi Gau; Yaroslav O Halchenko; Peer Herholz; Agah Karakuzu; David B Keator; Christopher J Markiewicz; Camille Maumet; Cyril R Pernet; Franco Pestilli; Nazek Queder; Tina Schmitt; Weronika Sójka; Adina S Wagner; Kirstie J Whitaker; Jochem W Rieger

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119623

Open and reproducible neuroimaging: From study inception to publication

Neuroimage. 2022 Nov:263:119623. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119623. Epub 2022 Sep 12.

Authors

Guiomar Niso¹, Rotem Botvinik-Nezer², Stefan Appelhoff³, Alejandro De La Vega⁴, Oscar Esteban⁵, Joset A Etzel⁶, Karolina Finc⁷, Melanie Ganz⁸, Rémi Gau⁹, Yaroslav O Halchenko¹⁰, Peer Herholz¹¹, Agah Karakuzu¹², David B Keator¹³, Christopher J Markiewicz¹⁴, Camille Maumet¹⁵, Cyril R Pernet¹⁶, Franco Pestilli¹⁷, Nazek Queder¹⁸, Tina Schmitt¹⁹, Weronika Sójka²⁰, Adina S Wagner²¹, Kirstie J Whitaker²², Jochem W Rieger²³

Affiliations

¹ Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA; Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid and CIBER-BBN, Spain; Instituto Cajal, CSIC, Madrid, Spain. Electronic address: guiomar.niso@ctb.upm.es.
² Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA. Electronic address: rotemb9@gmail.com.
³ Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.
⁴ Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
⁵ Dept. of Radiology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
⁶ Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.
⁷ Centre for Modern Interdisciplinary Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland.
⁸ Neurobiology Research Unit, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁹ Institute of Psychology, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain la Neuve, Belgium.
¹⁰ Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.
¹¹ Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
¹² Biomedical Engineering Institute, Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada; Montréal Heart Institute, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
¹³ Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.
¹⁴ Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
¹⁵ Inria, Univ Rennes, CNRS, Inserm - IRISA UMR 6074, Empenn ERL U 1228, Rennes, France.
¹⁶ Neurobiology Research Unit, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
¹⁷ Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA; Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
¹⁸ Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada; Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.
¹⁹ Neuroimaging Unit, Carl-von-Ossietzky Universität, Oldenburg, Germany.
²⁰ Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland.
²¹ Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine, Research Centre Juelich, Germany.
²² The Alan Turing Institute, British Library, London, UK.
²³ Neuroimaging Unit, Carl-von-Ossietzky Universität, Oldenburg, Germany; Department of Psychology, Carl-von-Ossietzky Universität, Oldenburg, Germany. Electronic address: jochem.rieger@uni-oldenburg.de.

Abstract

Empirical observations of how labs conduct research indicate that the adoption rate of open practices for transparent, reproducible, and collaborative science remains in its infancy. This is at odds with the overwhelming evidence for the necessity of these practices and their benefits for individual researchers, scientific progress, and society in general. To date, information required for implementing open science practices throughout the different steps of a research project is scattered among many different sources. Even experienced researchers in the topic find it hard to navigate the ecosystem of tools and to make sustainable choices. Here, we provide an integrated overview of community-developed resources that can support collaborative, open, reproducible, replicable, robust and generalizable neuroimaging throughout the entire research cycle from inception to publication and across different neuroimaging modalities. We review tools and practices supporting study inception and planning, data acquisition, research data management, data processing and analysis, and research dissemination. An online version of this resource can be found at https://oreoni.github.io. We believe it will prove helpful for researchers and institutions to make a successful and sustainable move towards open and reproducible science and to eventually take an active role in its future development.

Keywords: EEG; MEG; MRI; Open science; PET; Reproducibility.

Publication types

Review
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Ecosystem*
Humans
Neuroimaging* / methods
Research Design

Abstract

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Grants and funding