Dear NEST Users,
I take the opportunity to invite you to
participate to this call for papers on an important topic, which
is reproducibility.
I hope to see your submissions soon!
Are you interested in making neuroscience
more reproducible?
Have you already tried to replicate a study?
Are you bothered by the "Data and code are available upon
reasonable request"?
If your answer to one of the previous questions is "yes", then you
could be interested in this call for papers. With this research
topic, we aim to stimulate neuroscientists from all fields to
design and publish works that rigorously attempt to reproduce
landmarks or controversial studies:
https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/26709/reproducibility-in-neuroscience
We are inviting papers on both:
- "Results reproducibility", i.e., obtain the same results from an
independent study with procedures as closely matched to the
original study as possible;
- "Inferential reproducibility", i.e. draw the same conclusions
from either an independent replication, using different research
methodologies, of a study or a reanalysis of the original data.
We will consider both confirmatory and negative results, the
unique criteria will be the rigorousness, fairness, and soundness
of the replication study.
Authors are required to make all materials and methods used to
conduct their research available to other researchers. Data and
codes used to analyze results must comply with FAIR principles and
should preferably be uploaded to an online repository providing a
global persistent identifier (e.g., OSF, Harvard Dataverse,
Zenodo).
Authors are also strongly encouraged to subject their codes to an
independent audit at codecheck.org.uk.
I’m very pleased to be launching a new article collection,
Reproducibility in Neuroscience, together with an expert editorial
team:
- Alberto Antonietti - Blue Brain Project, Ecole polytechnique
fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Geneva, Switzerland
- Reeteka Sud - National Institute of Mental Health and
Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India
- Nele A Haelterman - Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, United
States
- Nafisa M Jadavji - Midwestern University, Glendale, AZ, United
States
- Denes Szucs - University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
We’re now in the process of putting together a group of top
researchers whose work we’d like to feature in this collection,
and we would like you to participate. The research topic is hosted
by Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, you can find all
information here:
https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/26709/reproducibility-in-neuroscience
Important notice on Publishing Fee (APC) support:
If Frontiers publishing fees are too high for your funding
situation, you are eligible for full or partial APC fee support.
In order to apply to fee support, please complete the fee support
application form online, and allow up to two weeks for Frontiers
to review and reply to your request: https://frontiers.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_51IljifwFBXUzY1
More information can be found at: https://www.frontiersin.org/about/fee-policy
Please get in touch if you have any questions - looking forward to
hearing from you.
Alberto
On behalf of the Topic Editors.
