In Progress

Collecting information

At this stage, the repository exists. You are now collecting information.

• Fill out the following fields in the Jira ticket (some may be pre-populated):

  • Replication package URL In almost all cases, this is the openICPSR repo for which you will have received a notification email.

    • If code and/or data are provided by email, Replication package URL should be filled out with “https://email”, otherwise with a DOI or URL.

  • Journal

  • Manuscript Central identifier

  • Bitbucket short name (e.g., aearep-123)

    • this should then auto-fill Git working location.

• The following fields, located in the REPL. INFO tab area 2 of the screen, must also be filled out:

  • Empirical Article: “Does the article contain empirical work, simulations, or experimental work?”

    • typically the answer should be “Yes”. You should answer “No” only if you read the article and find that it is entirely theoretical, no simulations or empirical work at all.

  • RCT: Is the paper about a randomized control trial? This should be immediately obvious from the abstract.

    • RCT NUMBER: If it is an RCT, fill in the associated RCT registration number (typically in the title page footnote)

Choosing the next steps

From here, there should be two sub-tasks.

There are two possibilities now:

You complete the subtasks sequentially

• First, complete the Prepare preliminary report (Part A) subtask.

• Then, run the code and complete the Part B report.

You and somebody else complete the subtasks in parallel

In some cases, you will be working with somebody else.

• One person does Part A: _____________

• Another person does Part B: ________________

In general, the person doing Part A should then also, once Part B is completed, merge in the information from Part B and write the final Findings section (Part C).

We will describe Parts A and B in sequence, but as needed, you should skip ahead.