Open Science and Responsible Science
Liliane Furtado et al.
What the paper says
The motivation for this editorial arose from an episode experienced by two of the authors. During a thesis defense, when questioned by a faculty member about the instrument used in her research, a student described how difficult it had been to locate it. What began as a simple search for an instrument widely cited in the literature turned into a true “academic odyssey.” Several articles that relied on the instrument did not present it in full—only a few illustrative items. The seminal study that originally proposed the instrument was written in a language other than English. Attempts to contact the researcher who authored the scale went unanswered. At every step, a new labyrinth emerged in the effort to locate the complete instrument. Along with it grew the feeling that something essential to scientific practice remained inaccessible.
Evidence weight
Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40
| F · citation impact | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
| M · momentum | 0.50 × 0.15 = 0.07 |
| V · venue signal | 0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03 |
| R · text relevance † | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
† Text relevance is estimated at 0.50 on the detail page — for your query’s actual relevance score, open this paper from a search result.