Research management articles within Nature Communications

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• Comment
  08 January 2024 | Open Access

  Integrative and inclusive genomics to promote the use of underutilised crops

  Underutilised crops or orphan crops are important for diversifying our food systems towards food and nutrition security. Here, the authors discuss how the development of underutilised crop genomic resource should align with their breeding and capacity building strategies, and leverage advances made in major crops.

  • Oluwaseyi Shorinola
  • , Rose Marks
  •  & Mark A. Chapman

• Article
  02 January 2024 | Open Access

  rworkflows: automating reproducible practices for the R community

  Reproducibility is essential for the progress of research, yet achieving it remains elusive even in computational fields. Here, authors develop the rworkflows suite, making robust CI/CD workflows easy and freely accessible to all R package developers.

  • Brian M. Schilder
  • , Alan E. Murphy
  •  & Nathan G. Skene

• Comment
  04 October 2023 | Open Access

  Extending research impact by sharing maker information

  The availability of maker resources such as 3D printers, makerspaces, and public repositories enable researchers to share information with research peers, educators, industry, and the general public. This broadens the impact of research and inspires its extension and application.

  • Larry L. Howell
  •  & Terri Bateman

• Comment
  03 April 2023 | Open Access

  Method Reporting with Initials for Transparency (MeRIT) promotes more granularity and accountability for author contributions

  Lack of information on authors’ contribution to specific aspects of a study hampers reproducibility and replicability. Here, the authors propose a new, easily implemented reporting system to clarify contributor roles in the Methods section of an article.

  • Shinichi Nakagawa
  • , Edward R. Ivimey-Cook
  •  & Malgorzata Lagisz

• Article
  24 March 2023 | Open Access

  Surprising combinations of research contents and contexts are related to impact and emerge with scientific outsiders from distant disciplines

  Here, using hypergraph modeling the authors show that surprising research (in terms of unexpected combinations of research contents and contexts) is associated with impact and arises from scientific outsiders solving problems in distant disciplines.

  • Feng Shi
  •  & James Evans

• Comment
  28 October 2021 | Open Access

  Impacts of climate change to African indigenous communities and examples of adaptation responses

  Climate change negatively impacts the livelihoods of indigenous communities across the world, including those located on the African continent. This Comment reports on how five African indigenous communities have been impacted by climate change and the adopted adaptation mechanisms.

  • Walter Leal Filho
  • , Newton R. Matandirotya
  •  & Richard Achia Mbih

• Article
  17 January 2020 | Open Access

  Low replicability can support robust and efficient science

  There has been much concern about the “replication crisis” in psychology and other disciplines. Here the authors show that an efficient solution to the crisis would not insist on replication before publication, and would instead encourage publication before replication, with the findings marked as preliminary.

  • Stephan Lewandowsky
  •  & Klaus Oberauer

• Perspective
  04 October 2019 | Open Access

  Engaging with research impact assessment for an environmental science case study

  Existing approaches to research impact assessment fail to include a range of soft impacts. The authors present a 3-part impact mapping approach and apply it to an environmental initiative. They highlight that support for realising research impact is vital, and call on researchers to be open to new ideas and avenues for creating impact from their work.

  • Kirstie A. Fryirs
  • , Gary J. Brierley
  •  & Thom Dixon