With generous funding from Flu Lab, The Center for Open Science is providing $100 USD to $2,000 awards to early and mid-career researchers to encourage open science practices among their peers. Awards will be given for:
Please see ‘Eligibility’ and ‘Submission Criteria’ tabs above for further details on how to apply.
Reproducible evidence is a signature strength of science, yet replications and negative results rarely appear in journals because cultural incentives emphasize novelty over verification (Nosek, Spies, & Motyl, 2012). These behaviors must be addressed and amended in all areas of research, and especially as they relate to findings that can dramatically improve public health and education.
Preliminary research demonstrates that the influenza community sees value in the publication of null results and replication studies1. However, these same respondents believe that their peers hold disfavorable views regarding these same practices, demonstrating a mismatch between researchers’ perceptions and beliefs of open science practices in influenza research2.
The Center for Open Science (COS), and Flu Lab are collaborating to bypass these detrimental incentives and to encourage the availability of all findings that contribute to the influenza body of knowledge, using four primary actions:
This project is working to create (1) a community of influenza researchers sharing knowledge and practices in improved open science, and (2) a subsequent body of research that is more credible, less affected by publication bias, and more verifiable through the increased adoption of open science practices.
Through the Opening Influenza Research project, we invite the influenza research community to “empty the file drawers” and contribute to a thorough aggregation of open and accessible findings.
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178, 80% of influenza researchers in the Open Scholarship Survey indicated a favorable attitude toward null results, replication studies.
239, 48% of influenza researchers in the Open Scholarship Survey perceived a favorable attitude toward null results, replication studies.
A submission starts with an - inquiry to COS to confirm eligibility. Only inquiries that confirm eligibility with COS will be eligible for an award. Qualifying proposals are eligible to receive financial awards from Flu Lab to support multiple open science initiatives within the influenza community, including:
Please see the Submission Criteria tab for further details.
Awards cannot be sent to countries where U.S. law prevents such transactions. Please see the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) FAQs for further details.
Questions? Please contact flulab@cos.io for assistance.
Kenmoe S, Kengne-Nde C, Modiyinji AF, Bigna JJ, Njouom R (2020) Association of early viral lower respiratory infections and subsequent development of atopy, a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies. PLoS ONE 15(4): e0231816. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231816
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