Transparent peer review and open data at Communications Biology | Communications Biology
peter.suber's bookmarks 2019-07-07
Summary:
"As of January 1st 2019, authors submitting manuscripts to Communications Biology can choose to publish the reviewer reports and author replies with their articles. The first articles with associated reviewer reports have now been published, representing an important step in our broader journey toward greater openness....
In addition, we ask that the data underlying plots and graphs in the main figures are available either in the supplementary materials or via an online generalist repository....Given the positive outcome of our trial, we are now making source data mandatory for published papers from today...."