By Jack Nash
16 April 2026
In August 2024, F1000 and the Gates Foundation launched VeriXiv, a revolutionary preprint server with enhanced prepublication checks to verify preprints before publication, seeking to address concerns about the research integrity of preprints, especially amid the growth of AI-generated content, whilst still enabling the rapid availability of research. In the following blog post, we reflect […]
By Jack Nash
24 March 2026
At Gates Open Research, all research outputs deserve proper recognition. That’s why Gates Open Research publishes a diverse range of article types, from traditional Research Articles to less common formats such as Software Tool Articles, Data Notes, and beyond. In this blog, we outline what a Software Tool Article is and how publishing one could […]
By Jack Nash
20 January 2026
Open data is a key component of open science practices, and making your data available for others to reuse can increase the validity, reproducibility, and impact of your research. In the following blog post, we outline the benefits of data reuse and offer insight into the best practices for sharing your data with other researchers. […]
By Jack Nash
03 December 2025
Over recent years, many researchers have alluded to a ‘reproducibility crisis’, where many studies are difficult or impossible to reproduce. So, how can researchers make their work more reproducible? We’ve covered some methods in a previous blog post; however, the diverse article types available to authors publishing on Gates Open Research also offer a solution […]
By Jack Nash
01 December 2025
Research on HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) and AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) has advanced significantly since the retrovirus’s discovery in the 1980s. AIDS results from HIV infection, and complications from AIDS have led to the deaths of 35 million people since it was identified in 1981. This discovery led to the creation of the first […]
By Jack Nash
03 November 2025
Every day, 2 billion people worldwide lack access to safely managed sanitation facilities at home. This stark reality represents one of the most pressing yet unaddressed challenges of our time, affecting not just individual health but entire communities’ economic and social development. Sanitation research sits at the intersection of public health, engineering, and social science, offering evidence-based […]
By Jack Nash
16 October 2025
Peer review is important for academic publishing, helping to maintain quality and trust in research. After your manuscript passes our editorial checks and is published on VeriXiv, our in-house editorial team will invite experts from your field to review the paper before it is published on Gates Open Research. So, what should you do once […]
By Jack Nash
08 October 2025
Peer review is an integral part of scholarly communication and academic publishing. It’s also an opportunity to provide valuable and constructive feedback to authors, helping them improve their manuscripts and to verify the quality of their research. However, writing peer review reports can be challenging, as there is no one-size-fits-all approach, and some research papers […]