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Where Do Early Career Researchers Stand on Open Science Practices? A Survey Within the Max Planck Society

Open science (OS) is of paramount importance for the improvement of science worldwide and across research fields. Recent years have witnessed a transition toward open and transparent scientific practices, but there is still a long way to go. Early career researchers (ECRs) are of crucial relevance i...

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Autores principales: Toribio-Flórez, Daniel, Anneser, Lukas, deOliveira-Lopes, Felipe Nathan, Pallandt, Martijn, Tunn, Isabell, Windel, Hendrik
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8025980/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33870051
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frma.2020.586992
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author Toribio-Flórez, Daniel
Anneser, Lukas
deOliveira-Lopes, Felipe Nathan
Pallandt, Martijn
Tunn, Isabell
Windel, Hendrik
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description Open science (OS) is of paramount importance for the improvement of science worldwide and across research fields. Recent years have witnessed a transition toward open and transparent scientific practices, but there is still a long way to go. Early career researchers (ECRs) are of crucial relevance in the process of steering toward the standardization of OS practices, as they will become the future decision makers of the institutional change that necessarily accompanies this transition. Thus, it is imperative to gain insight into where ECRs stand on OS practices. Under this premise, the Open Science group of the Max Planck PhDnet designed and conducted an online survey to assess the stance toward OS practices of doctoral candidates from the Max Planck Society. As one of the leading scientific institutions for basic research worldwide, the Max Planck Society provides a considerable population of researchers from multiple scientific fields, englobed into three sections: biomedical sciences, chemistry, physics and technology, and human and social sciences. From an approximate total population of 5,100 doctoral candidates affiliated with the Max Planck Society, the survey collected responses from 568 doctoral candidates. The survey assessed self-reported knowledge, attitudes, and implementation of different OS practices, namely, open access publications, open data, preregistrations, registered reports, and replication studies. ECRs seemed to hold a generally positive view toward these different practices and to be interested in learning more about them. Furthermore, we found that ECRs’ knowledge and positive attitudes predicted the extent to which they implemented these OS practices, although levels of implementation were rather low in the past. We observed differences and similarities between scientific sections. We discuss these differences in terms of need and feasibility to apply these OS practices in specific scientific fields, but additionally in relation to the incentive systems that shape scientific communities. Lastly, we discuss the implications that these results can have for the training and career advancement of ECRs, and ultimately, for the consolidation of OS practices.
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spelling pubmed-80259802021-04-15 Where Do Early Career Researchers Stand on Open Science Practices? A Survey Within the Max Planck Society Toribio-Flórez, Daniel Anneser, Lukas deOliveira-Lopes, Felipe Nathan Pallandt, Martijn Tunn, Isabell Windel, Hendrik Front Res Metr Anal Research Metrics and Analytics Open science (OS) is of paramount importance for the improvement of science worldwide and across research fields. Recent years have witnessed a transition toward open and transparent scientific practices, but there is still a long way to go. Early career researchers (ECRs) are of crucial relevance in the process of steering toward the standardization of OS practices, as they will become the future decision makers of the institutional change that necessarily accompanies this transition. Thus, it is imperative to gain insight into where ECRs stand on OS practices. Under this premise, the Open Science group of the Max Planck PhDnet designed and conducted an online survey to assess the stance toward OS practices of doctoral candidates from the Max Planck Society. As one of the leading scientific institutions for basic research worldwide, the Max Planck Society provides a considerable population of researchers from multiple scientific fields, englobed into three sections: biomedical sciences, chemistry, physics and technology, and human and social sciences. From an approximate total population of 5,100 doctoral candidates affiliated with the Max Planck Society, the survey collected responses from 568 doctoral candidates. The survey assessed self-reported knowledge, attitudes, and implementation of different OS practices, namely, open access publications, open data, preregistrations, registered reports, and replication studies. ECRs seemed to hold a generally positive view toward these different practices and to be interested in learning more about them. Furthermore, we found that ECRs’ knowledge and positive attitudes predicted the extent to which they implemented these OS practices, although levels of implementation were rather low in the past. We observed differences and similarities between scientific sections. We discuss these differences in terms of need and feasibility to apply these OS practices in specific scientific fields, but additionally in relation to the incentive systems that shape scientific communities. Lastly, we discuss the implications that these results can have for the training and career advancement of ECRs, and ultimately, for the consolidation of OS practices. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-01-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8025980/ /pubmed/33870051 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frma.2020.586992 Text en Copyright © 2021 Toribio-Flórez, Anneser, deOliveira-Lopes, Pallandt, Tunn and Windel. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Pallandt, Martijn
Tunn, Isabell
Windel, Hendrik
Where Do Early Career Researchers Stand on Open Science Practices? A Survey Within the Max Planck Society
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title_fullStr Where Do Early Career Researchers Stand on Open Science Practices? A Survey Within the Max Planck Society
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title_short Where Do Early Career Researchers Stand on Open Science Practices? A Survey Within the Max Planck Society
title_sort where do early career researchers stand on open science practices? a survey within the max planck society
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8025980/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33870051
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frma.2020.586992
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