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A decentralized framework for cultivating research lifecycle transparency

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  • Wei Jeng
  • Shih-Hung Wang
  • Hung-Wei Chen
  • Po-Wei Huang
  • Yu-Jen Chen
  • Hsu-Chun Hsiao

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Research transparency has been advocated as a key means of addressing the current crisis of reproducibility. This article proposes an enhanced form of research transparency, termed lifecycle transparency. Over the entire lifecycle of a research effort, this approach captures the syntactical contexts of artifacts and stakeholders, such as timestamps, agreements, and/or dependency requirements for completing each research phase. For example, such contexts might include when, where, and from whom patients’ consent and institutional review board approvals were received before a clinical trial was carried out. However, as existing open-science tools are often dedicated to certain research phases or disciplines, and thus insufficient to support lifecycle transparency, we propose a novel decentralized framework to serve as a common medium for interaction among open-science tools, and produces irrefutable and immutable proofs of progress that can be verified automatically.

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  • Wei Jeng & Shih-Hung Wang & Hung-Wei Chen & Po-Wei Huang & Yu-Jen Chen & Hsu-Chun Hsiao, 2020. "A decentralized framework for cultivating research lifecycle transparency," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(11), pages 1-17, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0241496
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0241496
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