How Journals and Publishers Can Help to Reform Research Assessment – Science Editor

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  1. Cease the promotion of journal impact factors (ref)5
  2. Provide article metrics and indicators (ref)33
  3. Adopt the CRediT taxonomy for author contributions (ref)33
  4. Ensure that all reference data deposited with Crossref is open (ref)26
  5. Require authors to make all key data available according to FAIR principles (ref)19
  6. Follow the data citation principles (ref)17
  7. Encourage the use of unique identifiers (eg RRIDs; ref)18
  8. Require authors to use ORCIDs (ref)25
  9. Publish peer review reports and author responses along with the article (ref)21
  10. Examine ways to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the publishing process (ref)31 …”