Articles tagged with 'Article Types'

Article type spotlight: Method Articles

Have you developed a new or improved research method that could change how studies are conducted in your field? In today’s fast-moving scientific world, sharing methodological innovations is just as important as publishing research findings. Method Articles offer researchers a dedicated way to document and share their technical advances, ensuring that these valuable contributions don’t get lost […]

Article type spotlight: Software Tool Articles

At Wellcome Open Research, all research outputs deserve proper recognition. That’s why Wellcome Open Research publishes many diverse article types, from traditional Research Articles to less common formats such as Software Tool Articles, Data Notes, and beyond. In this blog, we outline what a Software Tool Article is and how publishing one could increase recognition […]

Article type spotlight: Study Protocols and Registered Reports

Over recent years, many researchers have alluded to a ‘reproducibility crisis’, where many studies are difficult or impossible to reproduce, raising questions about the findings. So, how can researchers make their work more reproducible? The diverse article types available to authors publishing on Wellcome Open Research also offer a solution to this challenge.

In this blog post, we discuss Study Protocols and Registered Reports, and how they can be utilised to prevent the manipulation of results and increase the repeatability of published studies.

5 ways to maximise your research outputs with Wellcome Open Research

Research projects are often long, complex, and made up of several detailed steps involving data collection, investigation, analysis, report writing, and more. And yet, only a snapshot of this work makes it into the final Research Article. By publishing every output of a research project as a standalone article type, you can get full credit […]

Why should I publish all my research outputs using different article types?

We explore why it’s important to broaden the scope of publishable work for authors, and how researchers can maximize their research outputs through publishing diverse article types.

Tell the full story of your mental health research

F1000’s Senior Associate Publisher, Sheridan Willis, introduces mental health researchers to the open access publishing platform, Wellcome Open Research.

Keeping up with COVID-19 – using living systematic reviews to close the evidence gap

Covid-19 is an emerging infectious disease, for which our understanding is rapidly and constantly changing. This is why Living systematic reviews (LSR) could be a beneficial approach to both prevent systematic reviews from going out of date and to keep up with rapidly moving fields. In this blog post, James Barker, discusses this and explains why LSRs are a valuable and practical way of monitoring and gathering available evidence on Covid-19.

Rewarding best practice with Registered Reports

Dorothy Bishop, Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology, University of Oxford, published the first full Registered Report on an open post publication peer review model. Her research published earlier this year in Wellcome Open Research looks at the impact of sex chromosomes on neurodevelopment. Dorothy tells us why she is an enthusiast for this new form of journal article, which is gaining popularity with 142 journals so far adopting this format as part of their regular submission process.