Gentle Science

• 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].

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