Scientific honesty and publicly shared lab notebooks: Sharing lab notebooks along with publication would increase transparency and help to improve honesty when reporting results

Bas van Steensel

doi:10.15252/embr.201846866

Scientific honesty and publicly shared lab notebooks: Sharing lab notebooks along with publication would increase transparency and help to improve honesty when reporting results

EMBO Rep. 2018 Oct;19(10):e46866. doi: 10.15252/embr.201846866. Epub 2018 Aug 29.

Author

Bas van Steensel¹

Affiliation

¹ Oncode Institute and Division of Gene Regulation, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Abstract

A standard practice of releasing lab notebooks as supplementary data would help to reduce biased and incomplete reporting in scientific papers. New electronic lab notebook systems offer an opportunity towards this increased level of transparency.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Ethics, Research*
Humans
Publications / ethics
Publications / standards
Publishing / ethics*
Publishing / standards
Scientific Misconduct / ethics*

Grants and funding

U54 DK107965/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States