Professor at the University of Arizona, College of Medicine Immunobiology, BIO5 Institute, Genetics-GIDP
We - The Scientific Community - need object metrics to determine if there are changes that can be made that would be viewed as improvements by the community at large. In taking part in this pilot, We are a community of experimentalists. We generate, evaluate, and consume the content of publishing. It seems natural that we should reflect upon the process, determine if it is meeting the needs of our community, identify areas in which we think it could benefit from improvement, and test if there are ways to make improvements upon the current system. I get excited about experiments and data. I look forward to the results of this experiment and what they will teach us.