Open Science

We are committed to Open Science. It is a movement aimed at making scientific research more accessible, inclusive, and transparent. Our vision is that all our research output is reproducible. To ensure this, it is our mission to foster an Open Science culture and empower students, researchers, and staff with tools and workflows that enable open data and open code.

Our tactics achieve this by:

• holding a 3-hour Quarterly team event, during which we discuss and integrate elements of Open Science
• teaching courses at ETH that build competencies in research design, research data management, scientific communication and computational tools (R, Quarto, Git, GitHub)
• contributing to networks, communities, and working groups for Open Science and reproducibility
• writing grant applications that target programmes focused on Open Science

We have developed a data publishing workflow, which supports ideas around next generation metrics. Raw, but analysis-ready data is documented and shared prior to the preparation of scientific articles. Where applicable, data from BSc and MSc projects is published. Every data publication is considered a standalone research output with its unique DOI (digital object identifier) and all contributors, including research support staff (e.g. enumerators, laboratory technicians) are added to publications with their unique ORCID iD.

The diagram below highlights the elements and tools of our workflow: