Point of View: Open Exploration
- Stanford University, United States
Abstract
Arguments in support of open science tend to focus on confirmatory research practices. Here we argue that exploratory research should also be encouraged within the framework of open science. We lay out the benefits of 'open exploration' and propose two complementary ways to implement this with little infrastructural change.
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William Hedley Thompson
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Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse (2016.0473)
- William Hedley Thompson
National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH117772)
- Patrick G Bissett
National Science Foundation (1655839)
- Jessey Wright
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (756-2017-0766-SSHRC)
- Jessey Wright
National Institute on Drug Abuse (UH3DA041713)
- Patrick G Bissett
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
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© 2020, Thompson et al.
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Point of View: Open Exploration
eLife 9:e52157.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.52157
