(16 Apr 2025) The Center for Open Science (COS) has announced the launch of the Replicability Project: Health Behavior (RPHB), a collaborative initiative that aims to strengthen the evidence base and advance scientific integrity in health-related research. The project will examine the replicability of a diverse sample of quantitative health studies published over the past decade (2015–2024).
Assessing the credibility of research is essential to advancing scientific integrity and maintaining public trust in science. The RPHB initiative aims to perform up to 60+ replications of empirical health behavior studies, providing crucial evidence about the reliability of findings that impact public health decisions and interventions.
The RPHB effort will assess studies published in six influential journals: Journal of Health Communication, Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Public Health, Applied Research in Quality of Life, American Journal of Health Promotion, and Annals of Behavioral Medicine.
The RPHB invites researchers to participate in two ways:
- Conducting replications of original studies by investigating the same empirical claims using new or independent secondary data
- Serving as peer reviewers or editors for replication protocols to ensure methodological rigor and transparency
For more information about the Replicability Project: Health Behavior, visit www.cos.io/rphb.
The announcement in full is here.
