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Plea for a Simple But Radical Change in Scientific Publication: To Improve Openness, Reliability, and Reproducibility, Let’s Deposit and Validate Our Results before Writing Articles

Jean-Antoine Girault
eNeuro 15 September 2022, 9 (5) ENEURO.0318-22.2022; https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0318-22.2022
Jean-Antoine Girault
1Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale UMR-S 1270, 75005 Paris, France
2Faculty of Sciences and Engineering, Sorbonne University, 75005 Paris, France
3Institut du Fer à Moulin, 75005 Paris, France
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0318-22.2022
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36109162
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  • Received August 10, 2022
  • Revision received August 24, 2022
  • Accepted August 29, 2022
  • Published online September 15, 2022.
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Copyright © 2022 Girault This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.

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  1. Jean-Antoine Girault1,2,3
  1. 1Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale UMR-S 1270, 75005 Paris, France
  2. 2Faculty of Sciences and Engineering, Sorbonne University, 75005 Paris, France
  3. 3Institut du Fer à Moulin, 75005 Paris, France
  1. Correspondence should be addressed to Jean-Antoine Girault at jean-antoine.girault{at}inserm.fr.
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  1. Author contributions: J.-A.G. wrote the paper.

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  • The authors declare no competing financial interests.

  • No specific funding was needed for this work. Research in the author’s laboratory is currently funded by Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Sorbonne University, Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), and Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (FRM).

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    • Advantages of vDRs in addition to increased reproducibility and validity
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