Authors : Sujay Rao Mandavilli

Volume/Issue : Volume 9 - 2024, Issue 11 - November

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.38124/ijisrt/IJISRT24NOV1692

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Abstract : This paper is probably our umpteenth and umptieth in our litany of paper on scientific method, and our advocacy of the need to bring it uptodate to suit the needs of the present time. We begin this paper aptly by defining what research is, what scientific method is, and follow it up by debating and discussing the bare essentials of transparency, objectivity, and objectivity in mindset. We explain why transparency is of paramount important to scientific endeavour, and can by and large eliminate scientific fraud and misconduct too. We also explore and summarize the current state of transparency in research, and review efforts made by “The Center for Open Science” which promotes transparency in research and puts out guidelines, on issues such as citation standards, data transparency, analytic methods, design and analysis transparency. Various types of transparency such as data and method transparency and reproducibility are also probed and investigated in this paper, along with value ethics and publication ethics. There are several reasons we write this paper. The first is that the ideals of this movement need to be spread among all and sundry because awareness is generally lacking, particularly in developing parts of the world, secondly we need to merge this with the globalization of science movement, and promote better and greater cross-cultural research design, third because there are too many ideologies rampant in science, fourthly because the ideals of this movement need to be incorporated into scientific method as required, fifthly, because an integration with our other papers on scientific method is required, sixthly because universities and research organizations need to issue or come out with their standards, and seventhly because suitable cascading changes in pedagogy and curricula as required.

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3. Unveiling the Sociological Ninety-ten rules for Social Sciences research: Towards better hypothesis formulation in the Social Sciences in the interests of higher quality research and intellectual multi-polarity Sujay Rao Mandavilli Published in IJISRT, February 2023
4. Elucidating the Certainty uncertainty principle for the Social Sciences: Guidelines for hypothesis formulation in the Social Sciences for enhanced objectivity and intellectual multi-polarity Sujay Rao Mandavilli IJISRT, March 2023
5. Operationalizing cross-cultural research design: Practical, cost-effective, and a minimalistic application of cross-cultural research design to minimize cultural bias in research and reconcile diverse viewpoints IJISRT, April 2023 Sujay Rao Mandavilli
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15. Towards a formal analysis of “vested interests” as an intrinsic part of social science research techniques: Another crucial component of social and cultural progress Sujay Rao Mandavilli IJISRT, September 2024
16. Building upon “Foundationalism” to achieve the objectives of contemporary science: How this can lead to faster scientific progress and inclusive science Sujay Rao Mandavilli IJISRT, October 2024
17. Implementing “Epistemic coherentism” in twenty-first century science: “Epistemic coherentism” as an essential pre-requisite of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research, Sujay Rao Mandavilli, IJISRT, November 2024
18. Emphasizing “integrationism” in twenty-first century science: Another useful tool to generate better scientific paradigms better quality science, Sujay Rao Mandavilli, IJISRT October 2024