@article{3401,
  keywords = {Careers, Careers in research, Decision making, open science, reproducibility, Research funding, Scientific publishing, Scientists},
  author = {Brianne A. Kent and Constance Holman and Emmanuella Amoako and Alberto Antonietti and James M. Azam and Hanne Ballhausen and Yaw Bediako and Anat M. Belasen and Clarissa F. D. Carneiro and Yen-Chung Chen and Ewoud B. Compeer and Chelsea A. C. Connor and Sophia Crüwell and Humberto Debat and Emma Dorris and Hedyeh Ebrahimi and Jeffrey C. Erlich and Florencia Fernández-Chiappe and Felix Fischer and Małgorzata Anna Gazda and Toivo Glatz and Peter Grabitz and Verena Heise and David G. Kent and Hung Lo and Gary McDowell and Devang Mehta and Wolf-Julian Neumann and Kleber Neves and Mark Patterson and Naomi C. Penfold and Sophie K. Piper and Iratxe Puebla and Peter K. Quashie and Carolina Paz Quezada and Julia L. Riley and Jessica L. Rohmann and Shyam Saladi and Benjamin Schwessinger and Bob Siegerink and Paulina Stehlik and Alexandra Tzilivaki and Kate D. L. Umbers and Aalok Varma and Kaivalya Walavalkar and Charlotte M. de Winde and Cecilia Zaza and Tracey L. Weissgerber},
  title = {Recommendations for empowering early career researchers to improve research culture and practice},
  abstract = {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.},
  year = {0},
  journal = {PLOS Biology},
  volume = {20},
  pages = {e3001680},
  month = {Jul 7, 2022},
  issn = {1545-7885},
  url = {https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001680},
  doi = {10.1371/journal.pbio.3001680},
  language = {en},
}