Journal allows authors to update their research

The open access journal eLife has launched a new type of article that will allow authors to report significant additions to their original research, writes Núria Radó-Trilla for Times Higher Education.

The article, called a ‘research advance’, will report new findings that cast significant new light on the original findings, but which might not be sufficient for a new paper in their own right without a lot of time-consuming further work. The journal published its first research advance in the latest edition. The editorial describes research advances as an “experiment”, and says a potential next step would be to allow researchers who were not authors of the original article to publish one.
Full report on the Times Higher Education site