Publishing scientific papers in the 21st century

Part of "Wiley Research APAC Webinars", join Alberto Pepe and Matteo Cavalleri to discover how preprints, open data, interactive figures, multimedia elements, and code integration are changing research communication in scholarly journals.

The format of science papers and articles now have hardly changed since the 17th century, even though research methods and published content have evolved immensely. Why do scientists produce innovative modern-day research, but still publish it in a 400-year-old format? What can we do to produce scientific articles ‘of the future’ that better serve the global, collaborative, and data-rich science of the 21st century?

Alberto Pepe, Senior Director, Strategy and Innovation, Atypon and Matteo Cavalleri, Publisher, Wiley will be discussing Wiley’s vision of the scientific article, and how preprints, interactive figures, multimedia elements and code integration are innovating scholarly publications.

Transcript

1. Webinar Series
   Publishing science in a 21st century style
   Matteo Cavalleri and Alberto Pepe
   

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2. Research is becoming more
   computational, collaborative, data-
   driven, automated, and web-based.
   Researchers produce
   21st century research
   Written up using
   20th century technology
   Published in a
   17th century format
   Most paper formats are not natively
   collaborative, data-driven, version
   controlled, or backwards compatible.
   A centuries-old research “paper” is
   much like papers we publish, share
   and read today (i.e., static, 2D PDFs)
   

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3. AUTHORING
   TOOLS
   PEER REVIEW
   SYSTEMS
   PRODUCTION &
   TYPESETTING
   inputs: paper, data,
   code, notebooks,
   visualizations
   outputs:
   flat, static print
   pdfs
   1 2 3
   

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4. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/qua.25683
   

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5. P R E P R I N T S AT W I L E Y
   “Through policy, and through the Under Review
   service, Wiley embraces preprints and the early
   sharing of research
   

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6. P R E P R I N T S AT W I L E Y
   “Through policy, and through the Under Review
   service, Wiley embraces preprints and the early
   sharing of research
   So… 🤔
   Why not use preprints to experiment with 21st
   century publishing?💡
   

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7. S U B M I S S I O N S Y S T E M S
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   ReX
   P R E P R I N T S E R V E R S
   L I V E
   L I V E
   P L A N N E D
   P L A N N E D
   

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8. APR 9
   When manuscript is
   assigned to reviewers, it
   is ingested and posted
   with DOI: citeable and
   shareable.
   APR-SEP
   Peer review timeline
   automatically updated
   as manuscript goes
   through review
   SEP 17
   Paper published, link
   to Version of Record
   APR 8
   Author submits
   manuscript to journal
   and opts in Under
   Review
   U N D E R R E V I E W I N A C T I O N
   

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9. Author “opt-in” with
   option to preprint on
   different servers
   

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10. A U T H O R F E E D B A C K
    

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11. Peer review timeline,
    DOI, and preprint
    disclaimer
    If manuscript is rejected at any
    point by journal the peer review
    timeline is removed entirely
    

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12. Preprint posted on
    Wiley and journal
    collections
    If manuscript is rejected at any
    point by journal it is removed
    from these collections
    

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13. Preprint posted on
    preprint server’s
    homepage
    

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14. Link to Version of Record.
    Preprint versioning.
    

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15. Written up using
    20th century technology
    Published in a
    17th century format
    Researchers produce
    21st century research
    What’s wrong with that?
    

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16. Data in articles lack
    depth…
    …and they lack
    breadth…
    AAS World Wide Telescope
    

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17. Researchers analyze data interactively in the
    lab, it takes work for them to make them
    static and dumb for a article publication
    

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18. Supplementary Information
    are where data go to die
    Where is the code? Does it
    even work in my computer?
    …while data and code may be available in repositories external to the corresponding article, it takes readers and reviewers
    considerable effort to verify the software and re-run analyses with, say, changed parameters. 10.22541/au.160211021.13787691/v1
    

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19. The article of the future present
    10.22541/au.160211021.13787691/v1
    

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20. AUTHORING
    TOOLS
    PEER REVIEW
    SYSTEMS
    PRODUCTION &
    TYPESETTING
    inputs:
    paper
    outputs:
    21st century
    publications
    1 2 3
    PREPRINT
    inputs: data, code,
    notebooks, visualizations
    - Authors can upload rich media
    - Peer reviewers can access rich media
    

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21. Author has options to
    edit preprint and
    publish new versions
    

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22. In edit mode, author can add
    data, code, Jupyter
    notebooks, and replace
    static figures with
    interactive figures
    

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23. All rich media objects (data,
    code, notebooks, and
    interactive visualizations) are
    pushed and published in the
    Version of Record
    

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24. All rich media objects (data,
    code, notebooks, and
    interactive visualizations) are
    pushed and published in the
    version of records
    Data are connected to the
    figure that describe them.
    They are discoverable,
    indexable, citable, and
    usable
    Data in articles lack
    depth and breadth
    Supplementary Information
    are where data go to die
    

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25. Where is the code? Does it
    even work in my computer?
    The code is in the figure, in
    an executable time capsule
    

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26. “One picture is
    worth one
    thousand words….
    …then a video is
    worth 1.8M
    words*
    * 1 min of video, 30 pictures per seconds
    

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27. Open, transparent
    peer review
    reports (signed
    and anonymous)
    Open
    comments
    

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28. Peer review reports,
    author rebuttals and
    editor notes get a DOI
    and can be cited
    Riegel
    

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29. Join us in the future
    Thank you very much!
    Questions?
    apepe@atypon.com
    mcavalleri@wiley.com
    

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