ABSTRACT
The eLife Early-Career Advisory Group discusses eLife's new peer review and publishing model, and how the whole process of scientific communication could be improved for the benefit of early-career researchers and the entire scientific community.
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Peer Review , CommunicationABSTRACT
The need to protect public health during the current COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated conference cancellations on an unprecedented scale. As the scientific community adapts to new working conditions, it is important to recognize that some of our actions may disproportionately affect early-career researchers and scientists from countries with limited research funding. We encourage all conference organizers, funders and institutions who are able to do so to consider how they can mitigate the unintended consequences of conference and travel cancellations and we provide seven recommendations for how this could be achieved. The proposed solutions may also offer long-term benefits for those who normally cannot attend conferences, and thus lead to a more equitable future for generations of researchers.
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Congresses as Topic/trends , Coronavirus Infections , Pandemics , Pneumonia, Viral , Research Personnel , Travel , Betacoronavirus , COVID-19 , Career Mobility , Congresses as Topic/economics , Coronavirus Infections/epidemiology , Coronavirus Infections/prevention & control , Editorial Policies , Humans , Internet , Interprofessional Relations , Pandemics/prevention & control , Pneumonia, Viral/epidemiology , Pneumonia, Viral/prevention & control , Public Health , Publishing , Research Support as Topic , SARS-CoV-2ABSTRACT
The eLife Early-Career Advisory Group (ECAG), an international group of early-career researchers committed to improving research culture, calls for radical changes at eLife and other journals to address racism in the scientific community and to make science more diverse and inclusive.