Gentle Science
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This article is about the term "Gentle Science", the history of its genesis and its meaning.
- Gentle Science recognizes the special responsibility of the scientific community, for the quality of science, the quality of life in science, and its mission. While the individual scientist contributes her/his share, the scientific community requires concerted actions to encourage Gentle Science on institutional, national and world-wide levels [1,2].
- Open science - open source [3,4].
- Unexamined science is not worth practicing/publishing.
- Gentle Science develops and implements the concept of Scientific Social Responsibility (SSR), complementary to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Combine large scientific footprints with small environmental footprints; implement strategies of sustainability: climate change in the laboratory [5].
- Gender balance at all levels.
- Young scientists balance.
- Gentle Science aims at quality that should not be compromised for the sake of quantity, speed, or ‚first to publish’. From maximization to optimization [6].
- Gentle Science implements Better Practice and Quality Assurance explicitly.
- Gentle Science supports new approaches, making possible an evolutionary improvement of the quality of scientific publications, for fair science, fair citation, … [7].
