Insight Journal
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| Abbreviated title(s) | Insight J. |
| Discipline | Image analysis |
| Language | English |
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| Publisher | Insight Software Consortium (USA) |
| Publication history | Publishing since July, 2005 |
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| ISSN | None |
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The Insight Journal is an electronic scientific journal that facilitates the reproducibility of technical reports in the areas of image analysis and visualization. The Journal provides mechanisms for sharing open source software, open data and full description of parameters needed for readers to reproduce the experiences reported in the submitted papers.
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[edit] Journal Features
- The Insight Journal is based on the concept of open science by providing full access to scientific material under a license allowing readers to create derivative works.
- All content in Insight Journal is published as open access material under the Creative Commons "by-attribution" license [1].
- The Journal provides support for open peer review by allowing any reader to volunteer as reviewer, and requiring reviewer to make public reviews of the papers.
- Readers are also allowed to rate reviewers in a similar way that online retailers such as Amazon.com self-regulate their evaluations.
- The Journal is inspired by the concept of Reproducibility and by the Reproducible Research initiative championed by Jon Claerbout
[edit] Infrastructure
The software infrastructure supporting the Insight Journal is based on a combination of the following packages
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[edit] Preventing Scientific Fraud
The model chosen by the Insight Journal will prevent the possibility of Scientific misconduct that have recently alarmed the scientific community. Scientific fraud was deemed breakthrough of the year 2006 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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