Presenting our top three read blog posts of 2018
| 18 December, 2018 | Alanna Orpen |
As 2018 draws to a close, we thought it was the perfect opportunity to look back at what you’ve been reading the most on our blog.
On 28th February, we launched HRB Open Research and its blog network, publishing articles covering a range of topics and article types, including more traditional research articles to study protocols.
Since then, we’ve furthered our commitment to transparency by maximising reproducibility in scientific reporting, with the launch of Registered Reports as an article type on the platform. Declane Devane, Director of the Health Research Board, explains all in It takes two.
International Data Week took place at the beginning of November, and we celebrated this with the overhaul of our data guidelines to help you and fellow researchers on their open data journey. Hollydawn Murray, Data Publishing Lead, F1000Research talks about FAIRification and the handy go-to guides now available.
We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all our authors and reviewers who have contributed to HRB Open Research’s success. We wish you all the best for the holiday season and a Happy New Year!
Without further ado, we present the top three read blog posts for 2018:
New dawn: HRB Open Research publishes first articles
When HRB Open Research launched with the publication of its first eight articles, Patricia Clarke, Programme Manager at HRB, wrote about this new dawn for health-related research in Ireland. Leading the open research journey in Ireland, Patricia talks about the openness and transparency for research quality.
Increasing stakeholder involvement through immediate and open publication
Éidín Ní Shé, a Research Fellow at University College Dublin, is a co-author on three articles published on HRB Open Research. She is in the lead author of the first article to pass peer review on HRB Open Research. In this guest blog, Éidín tells us how she found the publication process and why it is relevant to her work in public patient involvement in health research.
Promoting men’s awareness of testicular disorder
In this Q&A, we ask Mohamad Saab, University College Cork, about his systematic review published on HRB Open Research, discussing the rise of testicular disorders in Ireland, interventions to help promote awareness, and he shares his thoughts on open peer review.