
@article {113537,
	title = {Recommendations for empowering early career researchers to improve research culture and practice.},
	journal = {PLoS Biol},
	volume = {20},
	year = {2022},
	month = {2022 Jul 07},
	pages = {e3001680},
	abstract = {<p>Early career researchers (ECRs) are important stakeholders leading efforts to catalyze systemic change in research culture and practice. Here, we summarize the outputs from a virtual unconventional conference (unconference), which brought together 54 invited experts from 20 countries with extensive experience in ECR initiatives designed to improve the culture and practice of science. Together, we drafted 2 sets of recommendations for (1) ECRs directly involved in initiatives or activities to change research culture and practice; and (2) stakeholders who wish to support ECRs in these efforts. Importantly, these points apply to ECRs working to promote change on a systemic level, not only those improving aspects of their own work. In both sets of recommendations, we underline the importance of incentivizing and providing time and resources for systems-level science improvement activities, including ECRs in organizational decision-making processes, and working to dismantle structural barriers to participation for marginalized groups. We further highlight obstacles that ECRs face when working to promote reform, as well as proposed solutions and examples of current best practices. The abstract and recommendations for stakeholders are available in Dutch, German, Greek (abstract only), Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Serbian.</p>
},
	issn = {1545-7885},
	doi = {10.1371/journal.pbio.3001680},
	author = {Kent, Brianne A and Holman, Constance and Amoako, Emmanuella and Antonietti, Alberto and Azam, James M and Ballhausen, Hanne and Bediako, Yaw and Belasen, Anat M and Carneiro, Clarissa F D and Chen, Yen-Chung and Compeer, Ewoud B and Connor, Chelsea A C and Cr{\"u}well, Sophia and Debat, Humberto and Dorris, Emma and Ebrahimi, Hedyeh and Erlich, Jeffrey C and Fern{\'a}ndez-Chiappe, Florencia and Fischer, Felix and Gazda, Ma{\l}gorzata Anna and Glatz, Toivo and Grabitz, Peter and Heise, Verena and Kent, David G and Lo, Hung and McDowell, Gary and Mehta, Devang and Neumann, Wolf-Julian and Neves, Kleber and Patterson, Mark and Penfold, Naomi C and Piper, Sophie K and Puebla, Iratxe and Quashie, Peter K and Quezada, Carolina Paz and Riley, Julia L and Rohmann, Jessica L and Saladi, Shyam and Schwessinger, Benjamin and Siegerink, Bob and Stehlik, Paulina and Tzilivaki, Alexandra and Umbers, Kate D L and Varma, Aalok and Walavalkar, Kaivalya and de Winde, Charlotte M and Zaza, Cecilia and Weissgerber, Tracey L}
}
@article {91958,
	title = {Creating clear and informative image-based figures for scientific publications.},
	journal = {PLoS Biol},
	volume = {19},
	year = {2021},
	month = {2021 Mar 31},
	pages = {e3001161},
	abstract = {<p>Scientists routinely use images to display data. Readers often examine figures first; therefore, it is important that figures are accessible to a broad audience. Many resources discuss fraudulent image manipulation and technical specifications for image acquisition; however, data on the legibility and interpretability of images are scarce. We systematically examined these factors in non-blot images published in the top 15 journals in 3 fields; plant sciences, cell biology, and physiology (n = 580 papers). Common problems included missing scale bars, misplaced or poorly marked insets, images or labels that were not accessible to colorblind readers, and insufficient explanations of colors, labels, annotations, or the species and tissue or object depicted in the image. Papers that met all good practice criteria examined for all image-based figures were uncommon (physiology 16\%, cell biology 12\%, plant sciences 2\%). We present detailed descriptions and visual examples to help scientists avoid common pitfalls when publishing images. Our recommendations address image magnification, scale information, insets, annotation, and color and may encourage discussion about quality standards for bioimage publishing.</p>
},
	issn = {1545-7885},
	doi = {10.1371/journal.pbio.3001161},
	author = {Jambor, Helena and Antonietti, Alberto and Alicea, Bradly and Audisio, Tracy L and Auer, Susann and Bhardwaj, Vivek and Burgess, Steven J and Ferling, Iuliia and Gazda, Ma{\l}gorzata Anna and Hoeppner, Luke H and Ilangovan, Vinodh and Lo, Hung and Olson, Mischa and Mohamed, Salem Yousef and Sarabipour, Sarvenaz and Varma, Aalok and Walavalkar, Kaivalya and Wissink, Erin M and Weissgerber, Tracey L}
}
