Psychological Science | Research Transparency Statement validator
Paste a Research Transparency Statement
Each component is checked against the journal's policy as you paste. Anything that doesn't meet the default policy or use the standard wording is flagged for human review.
Validation Results
Awaiting input — paste an RTS in the left-hand panel or click load example in the header to see how it works.

This tool checks a Research Transparency Statement against the journal's policy and flags anything that needs human review.

Paste an RTS into the left panel — it validates automatically. Each section heading and each disclosure component (Conflicts of interest, Funding, Materials, etc.) gets one of three statuses:

✓ OKDisclosure statement meets default policy requirements and uses standard wording.
⚠ Needs reviewDisclosure statement does not meet default policy requirements or does not use standard wording.
✗ MissingDisclosure statement is missing.
Try the example Click Load example in the header to see the validator in action with a sample RTS that contains a mix of OK, Needs review, and Missing components.

The validation rules are loaded from rts-config.js, which is the single source of truth shared with the RTS Builder.