Open AccessAt the risk of repeating ourselves… P ublishing data replication and negative data is good practice
Author(s) -
Rao Mrinalini C.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
physiological reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.918
H-Index - 39
ISSN - 2051-817X
DOI - 10.1002/phy2.273
Subject(s) - scrutiny , holy grail , mantra , publishing , constructive , open science , mainstream , face (sociological concept) , ingenuity , computer science , data science , public relations , sociology , political science , world wide web , law , epistemology , social science , philosophy , physics , theology , process (computing) , astronomy , operating system
Physiological Reports is off to a great start. The wonderful outcome of collaboration between two major physiological societies, The Physiological Society and the American Physiological Society, its success is in no small measure due to the diligence of the members of our editorial board and the number of high‐quality submissions received. We are on our second volume and not quite a year old. We look forward to a robust 2014 with an increased presence in various social media outlets.Our goal is to keep the discipline of physiology dynamic and bring to the reader the latest ideas in physiology “whose publication will be of benefit to the community” (Wray 2013). The Editor‐in‐Chief, Deputy Editor, and Associate Editors are continuously refining the parameters of “benefit to the community”—innovative science using cutting edge technology in unraveling fundamental questions, new ideas outside of conventional thinking, modeling based on solid evidence, well‐grounded findings that are contrary to the hypotheses, and confirmatory studies of previously published work with additional nuances. The latter two, also known as negative data and replication, are often …