How researchers share their findings has hardly changed in 400 years.
There has been effective digitalisation of the process, but the underlying steps and formats would be recognisable to scientists and researchers from the past.
As Jason Priem and Bradley Hemminger argued a decade ago, the present system combines the registration of findings with the dissemination of associated conclusions, which has negative consequences for the research system. In addition, earlier approaches have not scaled with the research system, which is both larger and more complex in 2022. The time is ripe for some real innovation, which is why Research England is supporting the development of Octopus, launched today.
