Toward an ontology for scientific quality reporting indicators

The scientific community and publishing industry needs more streamlined methods and approaches to ensuring the responsible reporting of research in manuscripts. While certain study types and research participant types may require specificity, there are many general indicators that can be standardised and normalised across the research communications ecosystem.

All quality indicators can and are being developed to be automatically extracted from publications. What they offer is a faster means to check the quality of the vital piece (manuscript) of scholarly communication. They provide more than a metric of attention. They provide a signal of trust.