The importance of early career researchers for promoting open research
Note: This blog was originally published on the Official PLOS Blog
Author: Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, PLOS’ Director of Open Research Solutions
Early career researchers again appear to be at the vanguard of open research, with them reporting more positive attitudes towards sharing of code compared to more experienced researchers – as found in PLOS research released as a preprint this week.
At the end of March 2021
PLOS Computational Biologyintroduced a more stringent policy on sharing code associated with articles published in the journal. This was in response to a desire of members of the journal’s community to go further to promote open science, which appears to be reflected in the community at large – determined through collaborative research between PLOS and the journal’s community of editors and researchers.