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Open Science Saves Lives: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic

View ORCID ProfileLonni Besançon, View ORCID ProfileNathan Peiffer-Smadja, View ORCID ProfileCorentin Segalas, View ORCID ProfileHaiting Jiang, View ORCID ProfilePaola Masuzzo, View ORCID ProfileCooper Smout, View ORCID ProfileMaxime Deforet, View ORCID ProfileClémence Leyrat
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.13.249847
Lonni Besançon
1Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
2Media and Information Technology, Linköping University, Norrköping, Sweden
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Nathan Peiffer-Smadja
3Université de Paris, IAME, INSERM, F-75018 Paris, France
4National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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Corentin Segalas
5Department of Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Haiting Jiang
6School of Health Policy and Management, Nanjing Medical University, No.101 Longmian Avenue, Nanjing 211166, P.R.China
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Paola Masuzzo
7IGDORE, Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education, Laboratoire Jean Perrin (LJP), F-75005, Paris, France
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Cooper Smout
7IGDORE, Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education, Laboratoire Jean Perrin (LJP), F-75005, Paris, France
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Maxime Deforet
8Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine (IBPS), Laboratoire Jean Perrin (LJP), F-75005, Paris, France
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Clémence Leyrat
5Department of Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
9Inequalities in Cancer Outcomes Network, Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Abstract

In the last decade Open Science principles, such as Open Access, study preregistration, use of preprints, making available data and code, and open peer review, have been successfully advocated for and are being slowly adopted in many different research communities. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic many publishers and researchers have sped up their adoption of some of these Open Science practices, sometimes embracing them fully and sometimes partially or in a sub-optimal manner. In this article, we express concerns about the violation of some of the Open Science principles and its potential impact on the quality of research output. We provide evidence of the misuses of these principles at different stages of the scientific process. We call for a wider adoption of Open Science practices in the hope that this work will encourage a broader endorsement of Open Science principles and serve as a reminder that science should always be a rigorous process, reliable and transparent, especially in the context of a pandemic where research findings are being translated into practice even more rapidly. We provide all data and scripts at https://osf.io/renxy/.

Competing Interest Statement

The authors have declared no competing interest.

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  • ↵* lonni.besancon{at}gmail.com

  • https://osf.io/renxy/

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Open Science Saves Lives: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Lonni Besançon, Nathan Peiffer-Smadja, Corentin Segalas, Haiting Jiang, Paola Masuzzo, Cooper Smout, Maxime Deforet, Clémence Leyrat
bioRxiv 2020.08.13.249847; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.13.249847
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Open Science Saves Lives: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Lonni Besançon, Nathan Peiffer-Smadja, Corentin Segalas, Haiting Jiang, Paola Masuzzo, Cooper Smout, Maxime Deforet, Clémence Leyrat
bioRxiv 2020.08.13.249847; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.13.249847

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