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The role of editors in the development of the CoBRA guideline and the power of the multidisciplinary approach

Paola De CastroEuropean Association od Science Editors (EASE)Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Italy)

Workshop EDITORS AS PROMOTERS OF GOOD PRACTICES IN BIORESOURCE RESEARCHToulouse, October 9, 2015

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Challenges of scientific publishing: editors as agents of change

Open access, Open data, Open science, Quality, Transparency, Integrity

FOCUS OF THE PRESENTATION

Editors and researchers working together

BRIF initiative (Bioresource Research Impact Factor) and the editors’ subgroup

Benefits of a multidisciplinary approach

Results achieved and future steps

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CHALLENGES OF SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING

Open access, Open data, Open Science,

Quality, Transparency, Integrity, Metrics1

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E-Research, E-science – Scientific conversation

Global collaboration – Next generation infrastructure

scientific journals are changing shape (and roles)

readers are becoming more and more demanding

authors are more and more pressured by evaluation and metrics

not only scientists are interested in the research conversation

DEFINE THE CONTEXT

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Publication arenaKEY PLAYERS – stakeholders• Authors

• Editors

• Publishers

• Readers

• Policy Makers

• Funders

• Industry

• Webmasters

• Librarians

• Data curators

• Aggregators

Where does responsibility lie?

• Patients

• Citizens

Create awarenessPublic health

Global health

FOCUS


Includes free news and reviews on the lack of scrutiny at open-access journals,

the rarity of published negative studies, and publishing sensitive data.

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COMMUNICATIONIN SCIENCEpressures and predators

Science, Special issue. 4 October 2013

http://www.sciencemag.org/site/special/scicomm/index.xhtml

Yes, but…

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http://www.sciencemag.org/site/special/scicomm/index.xhtml

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Publication/Dissemination Online availability, Use, Impact, Evaluation, Metrics, Social networks, Awareness, Preservation, Data curation

Current debate on scientific publishingKEY WORDS

• REWARD EQUATOR CONFERENCE ON WASTE IN RESEARCH, Edinburgh, 28-30 2015

Scientific (e)Content & Conduct Quality, Reliability, Originality, Duplicability

Editorial Process Ethical issues: Authorship, Editorship, Transparency, Integrity, Equity, Gender issues, Privacy, Conflicts of interest, Copyright, Licences

Editorial Process Technical issues: Structure, Standards, Formats, Guidelines, Style

Hints from


Responsibility, awareness, transparency, guidelines, accountability, evidence, open data

scientific research

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Debate on Open Research Data


• How can we define research data?

• What types of research data should be open?

• When and how does openness need to be limited?

• How should the issue of data re-use be addressed?

• Where should research data be stored and made accessible?

• How can we enhance data awareness and a culture of sharing?

Questions raised during the EC Consultation on Open research data, Bruxelles, July 2, 2013

Research data are associated with research activity in the process of creating knowledge on the basis of existing knowledge

The BRIF position was represented


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• researchers ask the wrong questions

• study designs are inadequate or inappropriate for the question under study,

• studies are not reported appropriately, or are either not published or published in the wrong place.

• Publish or perish - Predatory journals,

• Misconduct, metrics

Does it apply to bioresource research? How can journal editors collaborate with researchers towards a solution?

85% OF RESEARCH IS WASTE

focus on research question, methods, reporting, reproducibility, evaluation, incentives and more

WHY?

POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS


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EDITORS AS AGENTS OF CHANGE

In 2005, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) initiated a policy requiring investigators to deposit information about trial design into an accepted clinical trials registry before the onset of patient enrolment…

Included requirement for registration in the Uniform Requirements

Scientists require evidence

The story of clinical trials

Before that, trials registration was the exception; now it is the rule.

Numbers of registered clinical trials on the International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP) and numbers of publications about clinical trials on PubMed (1998 – 2013)

Roderik F Viergever, and Keyang Li BMJ Open 2015;5:e008932

Registrationfacilitates the dissemination of information among clinicians, researchers, and patients,

helps to assure trial participants that the information that accrues as a result of their altruism will become part of the public record.

contributes to increase public trust in medical science.Laine C et al. Clinical Trial Registration — Looking Back and Moving Ahead. N Engl J Med 2007; 356:2734-2736June 28, 2007

Effects of standard approach in the registration of clinical trials

Will the CoBRA have a similar effect?

http://www.nejm.org/toc/nejm/356/26/

http://www.nejm.org/toc/nejm/356/26/

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Bioresources are drivers of innovation and scientific progress and their sharing is a priority for biomedical research;

yet,

the limited acknowledgement of the efforts required to establish, maintain and share them is an obstacle for impact evaluation, often leading to waste.

EASE BRIF Workshop ● Editors as promoters of good practices in bioresource research.

Toulouse, October 9, 2015

REWARD ConferenceEdinburgh, 28-30 September 2015

Editors can help!

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USEFUL SOURCES FOR EDITORIAL ISSUESand hints on the current debate


Portal of reportingguidelines

Committee Publication Ethics

EditorsAssociations

Top Journalwebsites

Open Access / Open data


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EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF SCIENCE EDITORS

Mission: To improve the global standard and quality of science editing by promoting the value of science editors and supporting- professional development- research and - collaboration.

an international community of individuals and associations from diverse backgrounds, linguistic traditions and professional experience in science communication and editing


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EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF SCIENCE EDITORS

• Improving global standards

• Raising the profile of science editors

• Supporting professional development

Excellence and Accountability in Science Editing

http://www.ease.org.uk/

EASE BRIF Workshop ● Editors as promoters of good practices in bioresource

research. Toulouse, October 9, 2015

Editors and researchers

working together

The BRIF initiative (Bioresource Research Impact Factor) and

the editors’ subgroup

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promoters of good practices in bioresource research. Toulouse, October 9, 2015

• biological samples with associated data (medical/epidemiological, social)

• databases independent of physical samples

• other biomolecular and bioinformatics research tools

It is a work in progress, started in 2010, currently developing a framework for

• creating a tool for calculating research impact of bioresources based on a metric (algorithm) and on the use of a unique digital resource identifier

• assessing requirements for citation/acknowledgement of bioresources in order to trace their use in research

BIORESOURCES are

The BRIF initiative

Facilitate acknowledgementEvaluate use and impact



The neglected role of research biobanks

In scientific publications biobanks are • Not cited at all

• Cited in a heterogeneous way

• Not cited in a standardized way

• Difficult to retrieve

What is needed • Sensitize journal editors to BRIF issues

• Standardize citations in journal articles

• Modify editorial guidelines

• Inform the scientific community about the relevance of

this issue

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Difficult to evaluate

BRIF PARTICIPANTSjul/10 - apr/12: 135 members, 21 countries, >95 institutions

Legend:

<5 5≤ >10 10≤ >20 20≤ >30

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Competences/partiesrepresented in BRIF

•Biobank partners•Computational biologists•Computer scientists•Genome/genetics scientists•Epidemiologists

• Jurists, lawyers• Ethicists • Experts in impact factors• Bibliometricists• Journal Editors• Researchers/users



A multidisciplinary approach is requiredDifferent subgroups were established

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The journal editors’ subgroup

Necessity for journal editors to recognise the need to properly

acknowledge and cite the bioresources used,

using proper terminology and/or identifiers,

and agreeing on standards of citation

(format/marker paper, location(s), institutions, people, etc.)

Initial points to address

• Actions to raise awareness of journal editors to BRIF issues and modify their editorial guidelines accordingly



JOURNAL EDITORS PILOT STUDY (2012)

• Select journals publishing biobank related research (starting from journals where you most publish

• Check the Instructions to authors of selected journals to see if and how they mention biobanks.

• Check journal articles to see if and how they mention biobanks.

• Contact editors explaining why it is important to cite biobanks and ask them to consider their inclusion in the acknowledgements,

• Suggest editors how to modify instructions to authors.

• Publicize results obtained in the pilot (number of the journals addressed, no. of journals changing their instructions to authors, etc ) through articles published in the relevant journals and new contacts with the professional associations and editors groups such as the EASE, ICMJE, Equator, COPE, etc.

Tolouse, 22 October 2012

Collect background information to progress on the BRIF initiative

• Belgrade International Open Access Conference 2012. May 17-19, 2012; Belgrade. • 11th EASE Conference, “Editing in the Digital World”, Tallinn, Estonia 8-10 June 2012• Brocher Workshop Exploring Innovative Mechanisms to Build Trust in Human Health Research

Biobanking. June 12-13, 2013; Geneva. 2013.• 7th International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication

Chicago, September 8-10, 2013• EAHIL Conference , Rome, 11-13 June 2014, • HOBB, Milan 29-31July 2015• REWARD, Waste in Research Conference, Edinburgh, 2015

ACTIONS developed by the BRIF Journal Editors’ subgroup

• Address the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)• Address the European Association of Science Editors (EASE)• Address the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)• Survey to Journal editors (awareness and availability to collaborate)• Organize a restricted workshop addressed to Journal editors and experts

(Rome, June 21, 2013)• Publish the CoBRA guideline (BMC Medicine,2015)• Addressing Equator , Workshop in Toulouse, 2015, …. ….. ….

Sensitizing about BRIF issues

Dissemination of BRIF issues in international Conferences

BENEFITS OF A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH

Results achieved and future steps3We addressed different targets in our dissemination and awareness raising campaignsand translated research results in lay languages



RESULTS ACHIEVEDAwareness on BRIF

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AWARENESS:BRIF IN A BOOKSHELF


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RESULTS ACHIEVEDInclusion in the Instructions for Authors; Annali ISS2

The insertion has been added in the section “Manuscript presentation”


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RESULTS ACHIEVEDInclusion of Bioresources in EASE Guidelines3

available in 20 languages (www.ease.org.uk/publications/author-guidelines)

The insertion has been added in the section ‘Methods’

http://www.ease.org.uk/

http://www.ease.org.uk/publications/author-guidelines

BRIF Meeting – Rome, June 21st 2013Standardizing Bioresource Citation In Journal Articles: The Editors Point Of View

• Standard citation format (based on existing solutions)

• Position on Open data

RESULTS ACHIEVED

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Objective of the workshop

Outcome: General agreement on

To elaborate practical and realistic proposals for harmonizing bioresources citation in journal articles with the help of journal editors.

Eurosurveillance Editorial Board Meeting. Vilnius, October 11, 2013 -- P. De Castro

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RESULTS ACHIEVEDSurvey to journal editors (2013)5

The results were partly presented at the Chicago Conference on Peer review and biomedical publications (September 2013)

The majority of the journals (ISI) in the sample (both OA and non OA) is • aware on the issue of bioresources • is uncertain whether to include citation to bioresources in instructions to authors


Position of the BRIF Editorial Subgroup on Open data agreed upon during the Rome workshop and presented at EC consultation of July2, 2013

It is important to create awareness and trust on the use of open bioresources. The EC should create mechanisms and incentives that facilitate the culture of sharing through ad hoc recommendations and the inclusion of specific clauses on open research data in their funding schemes. Technical issues about quality, maintenance and long-term preservation of open data should take into consideration the requirements of the different stakeholders. The EC should consider funding measures to create and test tools for implementing such mechanisms.

There is general agreement that it is important that the EC considers the issue of bioresources/biobanks as relevant sources of aggregated open research data that have an impact on both science and society. It is important that such data are shared for the progress of global research, to avoid duplication and to benefit from large investments in terms of both financial and personnel efforts, including donors’

In consideration of the ethical issues associated to bioresources, only aggregated results can be shared openly

As regards where research data be stored, there was discussion about infrastructures and clouding and about maintenance and preservation issues during and after a research project involving collection and use of bioresources

Awareness and Impact

Levels of open sharing. Aggregated data

Data life cycle. Data Management Plan

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RESULTS ACHIEVED6

Where to cite

Standard Bioresource Citation

How to cite

Cite bioresource in the “Methods” section (not in the acknowledgements) and add relevant details in the reference list

• Name of biobank / bioresource / • Institution / Organisation or Network / • City / • Country / • Date accessed

Suggestions

• Use a persistent code rather than the bioresource name

• Use DOI when available (can be tracked through cross ref)

• Address the NLM “citing in medicine” to endorse “our” citation standard

• Address the NLM to verify the position of the term “bioresource” in the MESH

as agreed during the BRIF workshop in Rome, June 2013

RESULTS ACHIEVED7

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Share and take advantage from

recognition of their use

RESULTS ACHIEVED8 Publication of the CoBRA guideline, BMC Medicine 2015

Highly accessed article


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EQUATOR supports

wider practical

implementation of

reporting guidelines

by all relevant parties

to increase the

usability and value of

health research.

RESULTS ACHIEVED9 Inclusion of the CoBRA guideline in EQUATOR Network


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RESULTS ACHIEVED10 EASE/BRIF Workshop - Dissemination for CoBRA adoption

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DISCUSSION POINTS



• Do you think biouresource is a topic of interest for the journal?

• Did you ever use/cite bioresources in your journal articles?

• Do you agree to include “CoBRA guidelines” in the instructions to authors of your journal?

a)How can editors enhance implementation of CoBRA guidelines?

b)How can researchers enhance implementation of CoBRA guidelines?

c)How can universities, research institutes or research infrastructures incentivise researchers to use CoBRA?

Suggestions from Working groups addressing different targets

Multidisciplinary approach

is waiting for your opinion!

Thank you

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