We apply a novel mistake index to assess trends in the proportion of corrections published between 1993 and 2014 in Nature, Science and PNAS. The index revealed...
Background Recent controversies highlighting substandard peer review in Open Access (OA) and traditional (subscription) journals have increased the need for aut...
Openness is one of the central values of science. Open scientific practices such as sharing data, materials and analysis scripts alongside published articles ha...
This paper is based on research commissioned by the Wellcome Trust in 2015 and catalogues current initiatives and trends in the systems and processes surroundin...
A megajournal is an open-access journal that publishes any manuscript that presents scientifically trustworthy empirical results, without asking about the poten...
This article argues that the pedagogical and scholarly benefits of open peer review far outweigh those of traditional double-blind peer review, but require a sh...
Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold, first, to discuss the current and future issues around post-publication open peer review. Second, to highlight som...