Journal
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH
Volume 16, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
JMIR PUBLICATIONS, INC
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.3871
Keywords
open data; unreliable research; collaborative learning; knowledge discovery; peer review; research culture
Funding
- NIBIB NIH HHS [R01 EB017205] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND BIOENGINEERING [R01EB017205] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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The National Institute of Health invests US $30.9 billion annually in medical research. However, the subsequent impact of this research output on society and the economy is amplified dramatically as a result of the actual medical treatments, biomedical innovations, and various commercial enterprises that emanate from and depend on these findings. It is therefore a great concern to discover that much of published research is unreliable. We propose extending the open data concept to the culture of the scientific research community. By dialing down unproductive features of secrecy and competition, while ramping up cooperation and transparency, we make a case that what is published would then be less susceptible to the sometimes corrupting and confounding pressures to be first or journalistically attractive, which can compromise the more fundamental need to be robustly correct.
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