Editing Transparency (behavior) (section)

==Research==

[[research|Scholarly research]] in any [[scientific method|academic discipline]] may also be labeled as (partly) transparent (or [[open research]]) if some or all relevant aspects of the research are open in the sense of [[open source]],<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Rocchini | first1 = Duccio | last2 = Neteler | first2 = Markus | title = Let the four freedoms paradigm apply to ecology | journal = [[Trends in Ecology & Evolution]] | volume = 27 | issue = 6 | pages = 310–311 | doi = 10.1016/j.tree.2012.03.009 | pmid = 22521137 | date = June 2012 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.296.8255 }}</ref> [[Open access (publishing)|open access]] and [[open data]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wissenschaftsrat.de/engl_start.htm|title=Wissenschaftsrat: Home|work=wissenschaftsrat.de|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100417091550/http://www.wissenschaftsrat.de/engl_start.htm|archive-date=2010-04-17}}</ref> thereby facilitating [[Recognition (sociology)|social recognition]] and [[accountability]] of the scholars who did the research and [[Reproducibility|replication]] by others interested in the matters addressed by it.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Transparent science| volume=3|issue=1|doi=10.1093/embo-reports/kvf018|pmid=11799051|pages=9–11|journal=EMBO Reports|pmc=1083937|year=2002|last1=Peerenboom|first1=E.}}</ref>

Some [[mathematicians]] and scientists are critical of using closed source [[mathematical software]] such as [[Mathematica]] for [[mathematical proofs]], because these do not provide transparency, and thus are not verifiable.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://everything2.com/title/Mathematica+and+free+software|title=Mathematica and free software|work=everything2.com}}</ref> Open-source software such as [[SageMath]] aims to solve this problem.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.physorg.com/news116173009.html|title=Free software brings affordability, transparency to mathematics|publisher=physorg.com}}</ref>