RIO Journal 5 years on: over 300 published outcomes from all around the research cycle

Iva Kostadinova — Thu, 13 May 2021 11:34:51 +0000

Five years on, the Open Science-driven journal Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) published an editorial that looks back on the 300 research ideas and research outcomes it has published so far.

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Centrally-managed collections & Peer review flexibility: what’s new at RIO

Iva Kostadinova — Wed, 12 May 2021 16:04:54 +0000

In a new editorial, the team behind the journal Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) takes a look at how the community has engaged with the research it has published over five years. Motivated by the encouraging uptake, RIO is further sharpening its profile as a facilitator of open science. It has also updated its review process and implemented a new workflow that assists projects, conferences and institutions in preserving and publicly sharing their academic outputs.

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RIO shifts gears to serve as project-driven knowledge hub

Iva Kostadinova — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 16:16:35 +0000

Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO Journal) upgrades its unique concept to appeal to scientific projects, conference organisers and research institutions.

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Recursive language and modern imagination were acquired simultaneously 70,000 years ago

Iva Kostadinova — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 07:10:54 +0000

A genetic mutation that slowed down the development of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in two or more children may have triggered a cascade of events leading to acquisition of recursive language and modern imagination 70,000 years ago. This new hypothesis, called Romulus and Remus and coined by Dr. Vyshedskiy, a neuroscientist from Boston University, might be …

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FIT Project turns to interdisciplinarity to understand injury factors in youth football

RIO Editorial Office — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 09:12:30 +0000

To address the alarming injury rate in youth footballers in Sweden, the project Injury-Free Children and Adolescents: Towards Better Practice in Swedish Football (FIT project) seeks to fill in the knowledge gaps by bringing biomedical and social science together. With its multi-angled and interdisciplinary approach, the project involves a sample of male and female Swedish football players …

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Advancing the science and management of European intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams

RIO Editorial Office — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 08:25:20 +0000

A COST Action set to bring together scientists and stakeholders from across 14 countries within Europe Intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams (IRES) are waterways that cease to flow and sometimes dry. However, there is much left to learn about them, including their occurrence in the landscape, ecology, economic and societal values and incredible biodiversity. For …

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Pilot Project provides findings and advice on data sharing in development research

RIO Editorial Office — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 15:51:45 +0000

Launched just ahead of last year’s FORCE11 conference devoted to the utilisation of technological and open science advancements to communication of scholarship, the data sharing pilot project of Prof. Cameron Neylon, Centre for Culture and Technology, Curtin University, Australia, and his collaborators has published its final outcomes days before FORCE2017. The project made use of the innovative open science RIO Journal, which …

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The first microbial supertree from figure-mining thousands of papers

RIO Editorial Office — Tue, 09 May 2017 15:25:57 +0000

While recent reports reveal the existence of more than 114,000,000 documents of published scientific literature, finding a way to improve the access to this knowledge and efficiently synthesise it becomes an increasingly pressing issue. Seeking to address the problem through their PLUTo workflow, British scientists Ross Mounce and Peter Murray-Rust, University of Cambridge and Matthew …

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Legitimacy of reusing images from scientific papers addressed

RIO Editorial Office — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 15:25:58 +0000

It goes without saying that scientific research has to build on previous breakthroughs and publications. However, it feels quite counter-intuitive for data and their re-use to be legally restricted. Yet, that is what happens when copyright restrictions are placed on many scientific papers. The discipline of taxonomy is highly reliant on previously published photographs, drawings …

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Guidelines for scholarly publishing of biodiversity data from Pensoft and EU BON

RIO Editorial Office — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 16:28:23 +0000

While development and implementation of data publishing and sharing practices and tools have long been among the core activities of the academic publisher Pensoft, it is well-understood that as part of scholarly publishing, open data practices are also currently in transition, and hence, require a lot of collaborative and consistent efforts to establish. Based on …

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