The Resource Identification Initiative: A cultural shift in publishing.
The Resource Identification Initiative: A cultural shift in publishing.
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10.12688/f1000research.6555.1
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2015-01-01
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Vasilevsky, Nicole
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作者：
Bandrowski, Anita;Brush, Matthew;Vasilevsky, Nicole
支持研究再现性的一个核心原则是能够唯一地识别研究资源，即，用于进行实验的试剂、工具和材料。然而，目前的研究资源报告实践不足以让人类和算法识别报告的确切资源或回答基本问题，如“还有哪些研究使用了资源X？”“为了解决这个问题，启动了资源识别倡议，作为一个试点项目，以改善论文方法部分研究资源的报告标准，从而提高可识别性和可重复性。该试点项目吸引了来自大多数主要出版商的25名生物医学期刊编辑，以及科学家和资助官员。作者被要求在出版前将研究资源标识符（RRID）纳入三种资源类型的手稿中：抗体，模式生物和工具（包括软件和数据库）。RRID表示由权威数据库分配的登录号，例如，模式生物数据库，每种类型的资源。为了使作者更容易获得RRID，从适当的数据库中汇总了资源，并在中央门户网站（www.scicrunch.org/resources）上提供了RRID。RRID满足三个关键标准：它们是机器可读的，可以免费生成和访问，并且在出版商和期刊之间是一致的。该试点于2014年2月启动，已有300多篇论文报道了RRID。参与的期刊数量从最初的25种扩大到40多种。在此，我们概述了试点项目及其迄今取得的成果。我们表明，作者一般是准确的，在执行任务，确定资源和支持项目的目标。我们还表明，可识别性的资源前和后试点显示了显着的改善，所有三种资源类型，这表明该项目已产生了显着影响的再现性有关的研究资源。
A central tenet in support of research reproducibility is the ability to uniquely identify research resources, i.e., reagents, tools, and materials that are used to perform experiments. However, current reporting practices for research resources are insufficient to allow humans and algorithms to identify the exact resources that are reported or answer basic questions such as "What other studies used resource X?" To address this issue, the Resource Identification Initiative was launched as a pilot project to improve the reporting standards for research resources in the methods sections of papers and thereby improve identifiability and reproducibility. The pilot engaged over 25 biomedical journal editors from most major publishers, as well as scientists and funding officials. Authors were asked to include Research Resource Identifiers (RRIDs) in their manuscripts prior to publication for three resource types: antibodies, model organisms, and tools (including software and databases). RRIDs represent accession numbers assigned by an authoritative database, e.g., the model organism databases, for each type of resource. To make it easier for authors to obtain RRIDs, resources were aggregated from the appropriate databases and their RRIDs made available in a central web portal ( www.scicrunch.org/resources). RRIDs meet three key criteria: they are machine readable, free to generate and access, and are consistent across publishers and journals. The pilot was launched in February of 2014 and over 300 papers have appeared that report RRIDs. The number of journals participating has expanded from the original 25 to more than 40. Here, we present an overview of the pilot project and its outcomes to date. We show that authors are generally accurate in performing the task of identifying resources and supportive of the goals of the project. We also show that identifiability of the resources pre- and post-pilot showed a dramatic improvement for all three resource types, suggesting that the project has had a significant impact on reproducibility relating to research resources.