Assessment of transparency indicators across the biomedical literature: How open is open?

ABSTRACT: Recent concerns about the reproducibility of science have led to several calls for more open and transparent research practices and for the monitoring of potential improvements over time. However, with tens of thousands of new biomedical articles published per week, manually mapping and monitoring changes in transparency is unrealistic. We present an open-source, automated approach to identify 5 indicators of transparency (data sharing, code sharing, conflicts of interest disclosures, funding disclosures, and protocol registration) and apply it across the entire open access biomedical literature of 2.75 million articles on PubMed Central (PMC). Our results indicate remarkable improvements in some (e.g., conflict of interest [COI] disclosures and funding disclosures), but not other (e.g., p

SUBMITTER: Serghiou S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7951980 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature