SIPS 2025 Budapest

A fair and transparent attribution of authorship remains a pressing issue in academia. While established guidelines like APA’s and frameworks such as the Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT) offer structured approaches, students’ contributions to science often go unrecognized. Our research shows that 86.2% of German psychology students and 38.9% of researchers are unaware of existing authorship guidelines, and conflicts over authorship are widespread. To address this, a task force at RUB university has developed a guideline to systematically acknowledge student contributions using CRediT. This initiative integrates authorship education into curricula and fosters a culture of transparency in collaboration between researchers and students. By implementing such criteria, we aim to promote fairness in publication practices and encourage student engagement in academia. Our talk presents insights from our survey, outlines the development process of the guideline, and discusses its implications for academic institutions striving for equitable recognition of research contributions.

At our department of Psychology at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, we (students, part of the departments 'Open Science Initiative' group) have the opportunity to draft what we call the "Open Science Strategy" for the department since many labs in the department aren't aligned in how (or whether) they implement open science practices. In the session, we will discuss specific measures that could be part of this Open Science Strategy and exchange prior experiences with implementing open science more broadly.