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Baby’s Online Live Database: An Open Platform for Developmental Science
Efficient data collection in developmental studies is facing challenges due to the decreased birth rates in many regions, reproducibility problems in psychology research, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, we propose a novel platform for online developmental science research, the Baby’s Online Live Da...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8548418/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34721190 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.729302 |
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author | Kato, Masaharu Doi, Hirokazu Meng, Xianwei Murakami, Taro Kajikawa, Sachiyo Otani, Takashi Itakura, Shoji |
author_facet | Kato, Masaharu Doi, Hirokazu Meng, Xianwei Murakami, Taro Kajikawa, Sachiyo Otani, Takashi Itakura, Shoji |
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description | Efficient data collection in developmental studies is facing challenges due to the decreased birth rates in many regions, reproducibility problems in psychology research, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, we propose a novel platform for online developmental science research, the Baby’s Online Live Database (BOLD), which extends the scope of the accessible participant pool, simplifies its management, and enables participant recruitment for longitudinal studies. Through BOLD, researchers can conduct online recruitment of participants preregistered to BOLD simply by specifying their attributes, such as gender and age, and direct the participants to dedicated webpages for each study. Moreover, BOLD handles participant recruitment and reward payment, thereby freeing researchers from the labor of participant management. BOLD also allows researchers the opportunity to access data that were collected from participants in previous research studies. This enables researchers to carry out longitudinal analyses at a relatively low cost. To make BOLD widely accessible, a consortium was formed within the Japan Society of Baby Science, where members from diverse research groups discussed the blueprint of this system. Once in full-scaled operation, BOLD is expected to serve as a platform for various types of online studies and facilitate international collaboration among developmental scientists in the near future. |
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spelling | pubmed-85484182021-10-28 Baby’s Online Live Database: An Open Platform for Developmental Science Kato, Masaharu Doi, Hirokazu Meng, Xianwei Murakami, Taro Kajikawa, Sachiyo Otani, Takashi Itakura, Shoji Front Psychol Psychology Efficient data collection in developmental studies is facing challenges due to the decreased birth rates in many regions, reproducibility problems in psychology research, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, we propose a novel platform for online developmental science research, the Baby’s Online Live Database (BOLD), which extends the scope of the accessible participant pool, simplifies its management, and enables participant recruitment for longitudinal studies. Through BOLD, researchers can conduct online recruitment of participants preregistered to BOLD simply by specifying their attributes, such as gender and age, and direct the participants to dedicated webpages for each study. Moreover, BOLD handles participant recruitment and reward payment, thereby freeing researchers from the labor of participant management. BOLD also allows researchers the opportunity to access data that were collected from participants in previous research studies. This enables researchers to carry out longitudinal analyses at a relatively low cost. To make BOLD widely accessible, a consortium was formed within the Japan Society of Baby Science, where members from diverse research groups discussed the blueprint of this system. Once in full-scaled operation, BOLD is expected to serve as a platform for various types of online studies and facilitate international collaboration among developmental scientists in the near future. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-10-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8548418/ /pubmed/34721190 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.729302 Text en Copyright © 2021 Kato, Doi, Meng, Murakami, Kajikawa, Otani and Itakura. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Kato, Masaharu Doi, Hirokazu Meng, Xianwei Murakami, Taro Kajikawa, Sachiyo Otani, Takashi Itakura, Shoji Baby’s Online Live Database: An Open Platform for Developmental Science |
title | Baby’s Online Live Database: An Open Platform for Developmental Science |
title_full | Baby’s Online Live Database: An Open Platform for Developmental Science |
title_fullStr | Baby’s Online Live Database: An Open Platform for Developmental Science |
title_full_unstemmed | Baby’s Online Live Database: An Open Platform for Developmental Science |
title_short | Baby’s Online Live Database: An Open Platform for Developmental Science |
title_sort | baby’s online live database: an open platform for developmental science |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8548418/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34721190 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.729302 |
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