Towards open, reliable, and transparent ecology and evolutionary biology

Rose E. O’Dea; Timothy H. Parker; Yung En Chee; Antica Culina; Szymon M. Drobniak; David H. Duncan; Fiona Fidler; Elliot Gould; Malika Ihle; Clint D. Kelly; Malgorzata Lagisz; Dominique G. Roche; Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar; David P. Wilkinson; Bonnie C. Wintle; Shinichi Nakagawa

doi:10.1186/s12915-021-01006-3

Towards open, reliable, and transparent ecology and evolutionary biology

Rose E. O’Dea^* (Corresponding author), Timothy H. Parker, Yung En Chee, Antica Culina, Szymon M. Drobniak, David H. Duncan, Fiona Fidler, Elliot Gould, Malika Ihle, Clint D. Kelly, Malgorzata Lagisz, Dominique G. Roche, Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar, David P. Wilkinson, Bonnie C. Wintle, Shinichi Nakagawa

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Abstract

Unreliable research programmes waste funds, time, and even the lives of the organisms we seek to help and understand. Reducing this waste and increasing the value of scientific evidence require changing the actions of both individual researchers and the institutions they depend on for employment and promotion. While ecologists and evolutionary biologists have somewhat improved research transparency over the past decade (e.g. more data sharing), major obstacles remain. In this commentary, we lift our gaze to the horizon to imagine how researchers and institutions can clear the path towards more credible and effective research programmes.

Original language	English
Article number	68
Journal	BMC Biology
Volume	19
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-01006-3
Publication status	Published - Dec 2021

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O’Dea, R. E., Parker, T. H., Chee, Y. E., Culina, A., Drobniak, S. M., Duncan, D. H., Fidler, F., Gould, E., Ihle, M., Kelly, C. D., Lagisz, M., Roche, D. G., Sánchez-Tójar, A., Wilkinson, D. P., Wintle, B. C., & Nakagawa, S. (2021). Towards open, reliable, and transparent ecology and evolutionary biology. BMC Biology, 19(1), Article 68. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-01006-3

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