Beyond open big data: Addressing unreliable research

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Moseley, Edward T ^a   Hsu, Douglas J ^a   Stone, David J ^b   Celi, Leo Anthony ^a,c  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative learning; Knowledge discovery; Open data; Peer review; Research culture; Unreliable research

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PEER REVIEW; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; STANDARDS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DATASETS AS TOPIC; EDITORIAL POLICIES; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84914678969     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.3871     Document Type: Article

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