| Title | Description | Application | Open Source | Free? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMSTAR 2 | Critical appraisal tool for systematic reviews. | Literature review | ✘ | ✔ |
| ARRIVE | Checklist of information to include in publications describing animal research. | Open Science, Reproducibility | — | ✔ |
| DAGitty | Browser-based environment for creating, editing, and analyzing causal diagrams. | Study Design, Data Analysis | ✔ | ✔ |
| DMPTool | Creates data management plans to help fulfill data management requirements. | Study Design | ✘ | ✔ |
| Fiddle | Match-making tool aiding in publishing of difficult-to-share data/information. | Open Science | ✔ | ✔ |
| G*Power | Facilitates power analysis to calculate appropriate sample size for given study. | Study Design | ✘ | ✔ |
| Git | Distributed version control system that tracks changes in any set of computer files. | Version Control | ✔ | ✔ |
| Jupyter Notebook | Browser-based interactive computing platform for reproducible programming & data analysis. | Open Science, Reproducibility | ✔ | ✔ |
| JupyterLab | Web-based interactive development environment for notebooks, code, and data. | Open Science, Reproducibility | ✔ | ✔ |
| LabArchives | Commercial line of electronic laboratory notebooks. | Study Design, Data analysis, Reproducibility | ✘ | ✘ |
| Open Research Cal | Public calendar of open science events and meetings. | Open Science | ✔ | ✔ |
| PubPeer | Discussion platform for published scientific papers, focused on rigor & reproducibility. | Literature review | ✘ | ✔ |
| SciScore | Automated methods review tool for scientific articles. | Literature review | ✘ | ✘ |
| Seek & Blastn | Correct identification of nucleotide sequences. | Reproducibility, Open Science | ✘ | ✔ |
| Stan | Platform for statistical modeling and high-performance statistical computation. | Data Analysis | ✔ | ✔ |
| StatXFinder | Decision support tool for appropriate statistical test selection. | Study Design, Data Analysis | ✘ | ✔ |
Below we’ve listed all sorts of rigor & reproducibility-related tools along with links to relevant landing pages, notes as to whether a given tool is free and open source, and the specific part of the research process for which they might prove most useful. Check them out and spread the word, or submit tools we missed!