Research seminars Responsible Science Publishing and Open Science

Scientific progress relies on the efficient sharing of reproducible research through peer-reviewed scientific journals. Open science describes mechanisms for access to all meaningful, reliable research findings, which is important not only for ensuring full usability of published data, but also for making scientific communication resilient against challenges arising from manipulated research. Editorial selection at journals continues to play a crucial role in making key discoveries broadly visible, but it must be fair, informed and efficient, as well as resilient to misleading bibliometrics and research integrity breaches. Peer review is necessary but not sufficient for quality control and has become a bottleneck at journals.

I will explain how responsible publishers are contributing to fair selection and stringent validation processes, what challenges they are facing in this, and how they are addressing them. I will argue that nowadays, the cost of publishing derives mostly from journal roles in providing both essential quality control and gauging of potential significance, as well as driving the conversion to 'Open Science' with directly accessible, searchable and re-analyzable raw data.

Biosketch

Hartmut Vodermaier is a Senior Scientific Editor at The EMBO Journal, the long-standing flagship journal of EMBO Press. He studied biochemistry at the University of Regensburg, Germany, and the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, before joining the Vienna Biocenter International PhD program in Austria. There, he studied ubiquitination in the cell cycle in the group of Jan-Michael Peters at the IMP. In his postdoctoral work in the laboratory of Andrea Musacchio at the IEO in Milan, Italy, he focused on the role of kinetochore proteins in chromosome segregation. In 2006, Hartmut joined The EMBO Journal in Heidelberg, Germany, where he focusses particular on the subject areas of cell cycle & cell division, DNA replication, repair & recombination, post-translational modifications & proteolysis, proteomics, and structural biology.

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