Category Archives: Peer Review

Regulatory steps toward open science and reproducibility: we need a science cloud

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Victoria Stodden

This past January Obama signed the America COMPETES Re-authorization Act. It contains two interesting sections that advance the notions of open data and the federal role in supporting online access to scientific archives: 103 and 104, which read in part: … Continue reading →

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Generalize clinicaltrials.gov and register research hypotheses before analysis

Posted on May 21, 2011 by Victoria Stodden

Stanley Young is Director of Bioinformatics at the National Institute for Statistical Sciences, and gave a talk in 2009 on problems in modern scientific research. For example: 1 in 20 NIH-funded studies actually replicates; closed data and opacity; model selection … Continue reading →

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Open peer review of science: a possibility

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Victoria Stodden

The Nature journal Molecular Systems Biology published an editorial “From Bench to Website” explaining their move to a transparent system of peer review. Anonymous referee reports, editorial decisions, and author responses are published alongside the final published paper. When this … Continue reading →

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