Open synthesis and the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 - ScienceDirect

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Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volume 126, October 2020, Pages 184-191

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.06.032 Get rights and content

Highlights

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Open Science principles are vital for ensuring reproducibility, trust, and legacy.
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Evidence synthesis is a vital means of summarizing research for decision-making.
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Open Synthesis is the application of Open Science principles to evidence synthesis.
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Open approaches to planning, conducting, and reporting synthesis have many benefits.
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We call on the evidence synthesis community to embrace Open Synthesis.

Keywords

Evidence ecosystem

Collaborative research

Repeatability

Research waste

Transparency

Traceability

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: Declarations of interest: NRH and TL are the coordinators of the Open Synthesis Working Group, a voluntary collaboration of stakeholders interested in the application of Open Science principles in evidence synthesis conduct and publication.

: Funding: This work was produced in part as a result of funding from FORTE, the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare (2018-01619).

: Author’s contributions: NRH and TL developed the concept for the manuscript. NRH drafted the manuscript. All authors have read and approved the manuscript prior to submission.

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