Open letter to the WHOSTP and Subcommittee on Open Science

Statistics

Total signatures: 1466.

By position:
Professor (or other Faculty) : 599
Student : 340
Postdoc : 213
Anything else (enter below) : 156
Nonprofit : 45
By country (verified):
United States : 522
United Kingdom : 130
Canada : 61
Australia : 24
Germany : 15

Details

By position

Country Signature count
Professor (or other Faculty) 599
Student 340
Postdoc 213
Anything else (enter below) 156
Nonprofit 45
Industry 44
Government 10
Physician 6

By country

Country Signature count
United States 522
United Kingdom 130
Canada 61
Australia 24
Germany 15
Netherlands 10
Switzerland 10
Brazil 8
Italy 6
Israel 5
France 5
Sweden 4
Spain 4
India 4
Ireland 3
Poland 2
Austria 2
Finland 2
China 2
Belgium 2
Egypt 2
Costa Rica 1
Mexico 1
New Zealand 1
Malaysia 1
Greece 1
Hong Kong 1
Korea, Republic of 1
South Africa 1
Bangladesh 1
Singapore 1
Turkey 1
Colombia 1
Saudi Arabia 1

Recent signatures

Name Institution Position Comment
Bryan Nova Industry With paywalls, I never would have started developing my idea for evolving generalized self-organizing recurrent spiking computation graphs
Avisha Student
Benno Riha Delft University of Technology Student
Tanaya Batabyal University of Warsaw Student
Marcin Miłkowski Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences Professor (or other Faculty)
Przemysław Tomalski Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences Professor (or other Faculty) I welcome this initiative as a likely game-changer in the publication model for science. We urgently need a major overhaul of how research results are distributed and published to promote best and most thought-provoking work.
Yann Sweeney Nature Editor
David Muth retired Data Scientist
Nancy MacKenzie Student
Ginny Steel UCLA Library University Librarian
Swarag T Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pine Student
Alok Singh UC Berkeley Industry
Allfrey Simon formerly of UCLA Industry
Sherry H Lake University of Virginia Librarian
Anatoly Buchin Cajal Neuroscience Industry
Zhen-Qi Liu McGill University Student
Ryan Cubero Institute of Science and Technology Austria Postdoc
Hari Kalidindi Universite Catholique de Louvain Postdoc Academic publishing is broken and is running in a zombie mode from for-profit publishers whose only objective is profit maximization without any objective improvement in how science is communicated within research groups or to general public/policy makers.
Ashena Gorgan Mohammadi Student
Vivian Yuen
Tyler Walters Virginia Tech
Cristiana Dimulescu TU Berlin Student
Vitor Ferreira Imperial College London Student
Nikola Jajcay National Institute of Mental Health, Czechia Postdoc
Tom Smith Imperial College London Postdoc
Alexander Christensen Imperial College London Postdoc
Jacob Cook Imperial College London Postdoc
Samraat Pawar Imperial College London Professor (or other Faculty)
Jay Miller Industry
Emily Creel Mississippi State University Student
Verena Claudia Haage Columbia University Postdoc
Dat Ng Shiga University Student
Mohit Kulkarni IIT Kanpur Student
Ulrik Beierholm Durham University Professor (or other Faculty)
Maryrose Franko Health Research Alliance Nonprofit
Kent Campbell UT-Battelle Prime Contractor
Jarrod Moss Mississippi State University Professor (or other Faculty)
Lorenzo Picinali Imperial College London Professor (or other Faculty)
Riccardo Bovo Imperial College London Student
Devaraj Gopinathan University College London Research Data Scientist
Yen-Chung Chen New York University Student
Ebony Gunwhy Professor (or other Faculty)
Basavaraj Talawar NITK, Surathkal, Karnataka, India Professor (or other Faculty)
Manolis Agrymakis IMBB FORTH CRETE Student
Panayiota Poirazi Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH) Professor (or other Faculty)
Chris Barker New York University Professor (or other Faculty)
Kathleen DeLaurenti Peabody Institute Adjunct Faculty/Librarian
Allen Lee Arizona State University Research Software Engineer
Travis DeWolf Applied Brain Research Industry
Ailis Cournane New York University Professor (or other Faculty)