The Peer Reviewers' Openness Initiative: incentivizing open research practices through peer review : a new OA article | Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS)

" ... The authors of the study set out to investigate how openness and transparency show their agreement with open principles to ensure that articles meet minimum scientific quality standards that include open practices (e.g. sharing data, materials and analysis scripts alongside published articles). Although some progress has been made towards open practices, actual behavior in many scientific fields is far from the ideal of openness by default. The authors of the article suggest a new strategy, i.e. a new initiative promoting open-research requirements for publication, along with a plan for putting these into action. The Peer Reviewers' Openness Initiative is a statement that researchers can sign.  Accordingly, after 1 January 2017 reviewers begin to apply certain minimal open research standards to the manuscripts they review, while engaging authors on issues of scientific openness ..."