Gates Open Research is a
peer-reviewed
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open access
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scientific journal
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exclusively for research funded by the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Gates Foundation is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates. Based in Seattle, Washington, it was launched in 2000 and is reported to be the third largest charitable foundation in the world, holding $ ...
.
It was established in 2017. The journal is listed in the
Directory of Open Access Journals
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The miss ...
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Background
Gates Open Research serves as a research publishing platform with financial support from the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
The Gates Foundation is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates. Based in Seattle, Washington, it was launched in 2000 and is reported to be List of wealthiest charitable foundations, the third largest char ...
. It publishes original research articles on all topics so long as they have been funded by the foundation.
In addition, it hosts posters, slides and documents, such as grant reports. Open science publishing may increase visibility and maximize the societal impact of the research.
It enables researchers to disseminate their findings, ranging from conventional research articles, research and innovation ideas, to data, research insights and software tool insights.
The platform provides open published peer review and editorial support in-house. Moreover, it facilitates indexation in databases like
PubMed
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and
Scopus
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.
History
Gates Open Research was created to promote open access to Gates foundation funded research.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
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Web of Science
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PubMed Central
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Inspec
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Inspec cov ...
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Science Citation Index Expanded
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It was created by the Eugene Garfield at the Institute for Scientific Information, launched in 1964 as Science Citation Index ( ...
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Scopus
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See also
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Open-access (publishing)
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Open peer review
Open peer review is the various possible modifications of the traditional scholarly peer review process. The three most common modifications to which the term is applied are:
# Open identities: Authors and reviewers are aware of each other's iden ...
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