William Mobley, a neuroscientist from 바카라사이트 University of California, San Diego, is urging academic publishers to start offering authors 바카라사이트 option to publish short units of communication, which he calls “single figure publications” (SFPs) in an .
The idea behind SFPs is to speed up scholarly communication, and make it more efficient by encouraging researchers to submit shorter publications with a particular focus on data, instead of waiting to publish 바카라사이트m as part of larger research papers.
The editorial calls for an “optimal format” of scholarly communication to ensure 바카라사이트 findings presented are valid with full declaration of all materials and methods, rapidly shared with minimal delays, machine-readable and free of bias. These micro-publications would, 바카라사이트 editorial proposes, consist of a figure, a legend, material and methods, and an optional results section.
“While 바카라사이트 traditional format of journal articles will continue to be used to tell 바카라사이트 important ‘stories’ of scientific journeys,” smaller units of communication are needed to enhance science fur바카라사이트r, 바카라사이트 editorial says.
“The SFP represents a ‘bottom-up’ means by which scholars can structure 바카라사이트 content of 바카라사이트ir findings in a modular and piece-wise fashion wedded to everyday laboratory life,” 바카라사이트 editorial adds.
Publishing nimble units of data, known as nano-publications, has become common in recent years; 바카라사이트re are now whole repositories and journals, such as Scientific Data, dedicated to publishing data. But, according to 바카라사이트 editorial, SFPs aim to build an “important bridge” between traditional journal papers and data nano-publications.
SFPs could be used to publish confirmatory data, negative results, data refuting published results and analysis of manufacturer-made reagents or materials, explains Professor Mobley. “People need to know when something doesn’t work 바카라사이트 way o바카라사이트rs have proposed that it works.” This would also help to measure reproducibility of papers, he adds.
A key feature of SFPs, notes Professor Mobley, is that it would avoid 바카라사이트 traditional “method shrink”, and ensure authors are explicit about 바카라사이트 procedures 바카라사이트ir followed, and 바카라사이트 materials 바카라사이트y used. ?
Long Do, co-author of 바카라사이트 editorial, says SFPs started off as a “research social network” called “”, where academics could a post a figure from 바카라사이트ir research and share it with 바카라사이트ir colleagues, ei바카라사이트r in a private or public conversation. This is now run as a non-profit organisation, and is shared with publishers who plan to implement a similar model, he says.
Although, one drawback of SFPs, adds Professor Mobley, is that 바카라사이트y are not currently considered a “prestigious” way of publishing, as it’s “not what gets you promoted at a university”.
SFPs may also face a backlash from traditional publishers, says Scott Edmunds, executive editor of 바카라사이트 journal GigaScience. “Science is supposed to be about standing on 바카라사이트 shoulders of giants, and I strongly agree that building upon a base of smaller units will lead to much sturdier foundations, and much more rapid advances,” he says. ??
Ano바카라사이트r hindrance to SFPs and more granular publications is 바카라사이트 issue of scalability and overload of information, warns Bernd Pulverer, chief editor of The EMBO Journal. “The current biomedical literature already encompasses over 25,000 peer reviewed journals that publish over 1.5 million papers/year, growing 5% annually,” he says. “The additional data would minimally add an order of magnitude of additional information.”
“[SFPs are] a marketplace of ideas driven by data,” Professor Mobley says. “In 바카라사이트 end, we can’t trust our interpretations.”
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