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Use when documenting the coverage account of an Annual Review of Sociology (ARSoc) review and the transparency obligations of any systematic-review search or meta-analysis the review itself contains. Builds the search/selection record and the reproducibility plan; it does not gather the literature (arsoc-literature-synthesis) or appraise individual studies' designs (arsoc-comprehensiveness-and-balance).

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# Transparency & Reproducibility for a Review (arsoc-transparency-and-reproducibility)

## When to trigger

- The synthesis is settled and you must show *how* the literature was searched and selected
- The review reports a quantitative synthesis (meta-analysis, meta-regression, citation analysis) of its own
- A Committee member or referee is likely to ask "how did you decide what to include?"
- You want the coverage account to pre-empt the predictable "you omit literature X" pushback

## What "transparency" means in a review with no primary data

An ARSoc review reports **no new data of its own**, so the usual replication-package machinery (raw data, estimation code, a reproducibility README of *your* analysis) does not apply to the review's claims about the world. Transparency instead bites on two things you *do* produce:

1. **The coverage account** — a documented, near-PRISMA-style record of how the literature was searched, screened, and selected. This is what makes "comprehensive" a verifiable claim rather than a boast.
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