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Title |
Biosecurity and Open-Source Biology: The Promise and Peril of Distributed Synthetic Biological Technologies
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Published in |
Science and Engineering Ethics, September 2014
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DOI | 10.1007/s11948-014-9591-3 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Nicholas G. Evans, Michael J. Selgelid |
Abstract |
In this article, we raise ethical concerns about the potential misuse of open-source biology (OSB): biological research and development that progresses through an organisational model of radical openness, deskilling, and innovation. We compare this organisational structure to that of the open-source software model, and detail salient ethical implications of this model. We demonstrate that OSB, in virtue of its commitment to openness, may be resistant to governance attempts. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 7 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United States | 2 | 29% |
United Kingdom | 1 | 14% |
Unknown | 4 | 57% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 6 | 86% |
Scientists | 1 | 14% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 56 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Russia | 1 | 2% |
Canada | 1 | 2% |
Unknown | 54 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Ph. D. Student | 11 | 20% |
Student > Master | 11 | 20% |
Researcher | 6 | 11% |
Student > Bachelor | 6 | 11% |
Other | 4 | 7% |
Other | 9 | 16% |
Unknown | 9 | 16% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Social Sciences | 9 | 16% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 7 | 13% |
Medicine and Dentistry | 6 | 11% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 5 | 9% |
Philosophy | 3 | 5% |
Other | 17 | 30% |
Unknown | 9 | 16% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 April 2019.
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#2,943,153
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Outputs from Science and Engineering Ethics
#242
of 950 outputs
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#32,100
of 257,039 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science and Engineering Ethics
#8
of 19 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,397,980 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 87th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 950 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.3. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 74% of its peers.
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