Open research practices: Unintended consequences and suggestions for averting them. (Commentary on the peer reviewers’ Openness initiative)

Royal Society Open Science

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Bishop, D V M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data dredging; Data sharing; Ethics; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964048584     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20545703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.160109     Document Type: Article

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