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Announcement of Biomedical Refutations

  Dear all, RASPI is back with its first action to tackle the challenges of modern scientific publishing. We are glad to announce our willingness to create a journal with the main aim of publishing negative results . The failure to systematically publish negative results has a significant impact on science because it reinforces publication bias , obscures failures, and distorts the evidence base. This leads to duplicative efforts, poor reproducibility , and substantial wasted resources , while also undermining scientific competitiveness by steering researchers toward approaches that appear successful but are not. Despite these clear impacts, the issue is still not properly tackled: current publication practices and incentive structures continue to marginalize negative results, allowing inefficiencies and distortions to persist across the scientific enterprise From RASPI, we’d like to bolster the creation of Biomedical Refutations, with the hope that will serve as a pilot for futu...
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Assembly of RASPI!

Dear researchers, academics, and scientists, We are pleased to announce the formation of the Researchers Association for Scientific Publishing Improvement (RASPI) . RASPI is a community-driven initiative, founded by researchers with a clear mission: to restore the scientific publishing process to the scientific community . Concerns and protests against the business practices of commercial scientific publishers are now widespread. High cost barriers (both to access and to publish), an overburdened peer-review system, and growing threats to research integrity from predatory journals, fabricated articles… This is a high price to pay for leaving the communication of science in the hands of the private interests of a small number of commercial publishers. RASPI exists to address these issues directly. And to take action. The research community has already begun to mobilize around these goals. We align with the principles and recommendations of DORA , CoARA , and the Diamond Open Access mov...
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