Open Science and the Role of Publishers in Reproducible Research

Abstract

When we read about the claims made in scientific papers, we tend to believe that they have been written by their authors in good faith. The process of science therefore demands the highest ethics and quality in order for the content of a scientific paper to be taken at face value. However, the increasing number of retractions in the scientific literature suggests that peer review is not of sufficient rigor to assess whether the results reported in papers can in fact be reproduced. 1 It is often only the results and conclusions of a study that are examined, while the methodology, raw data, and the source code used to generate the results of a paper are usually not fully evaluated.

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