Gates Open Research publishes scholarly articles reporting any basic scientific, translational, applied and clinical research (including quantitative and qualitative studies) that has been funded (or co-funded) by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Each publication must have at least one author who has been, or still is, a recipient of a Gates Foundation grant.
Articles must be original (not duplications). All research, including clinical trials, systematic reviews, software tools, method articles, and many others, is welcome and will be published irrespective of the perceived level of interest or novelty; confirmatory and negative results, as well as null studies are all suitable. See the full list of article types we accept for more information.
All articles are published using a fully transparent, author-driven model; the authors are solely responsible for the content of their article. Invited peer review takes place openly after publication, and the authors play a crucial role in ensuring that the article is peer-reviewed by independent experts in a timely manner. Articles that pass peer review are indexed in PubMed and elsewhere.
In addition to scholarly articles, Gates Open Research publishes other research outputs, collectively called documents, such as end-of-grant reports or guidelines, that vary in formats and often differ from traditional scholarly publications. It also publishes posters and slides. Documents, posters and slides are not peer reviewed and do not appear in bibliographic databases such as PubMed.
Gates Open Research is an Open Research platform: all content is published open access under a CC-BY license; the publishing and peer-review processes are fully transparent; and authors of articles are asked to include detailed descriptions of methods and to provide full and easy access to the source data underlying the results in order to improve reproducibility.