Open Research Europe (ORE) is an open access publishing platform for the publication of research stemming from Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe funding across all subject areas. ORE supports the publication of a wide range of outputs – from standard research articles to data notes, from new insights to confirmatory or negative results.

We will be exploring all the research outputs that can be published on ORE in this blog post to help guide you along your research journey.

Open to all

ORE supports a range of articles that assist researchers in distributing their findings. However, there are some article types that are better suited to specific subject areas over others. The following are applicable to all disciplines:

• Case Study

Case Studies are a process or record of research into the development of a person, place, event, group or situation over a period of time. They are an empirical inquiry that investigate research application through real-life context or imagined scenarios. A description of a legal case or a hypothetical case study used as a teaching exercise would also fit into this category. Browse through the recently published Case Studies on ORE.

• Research Article

Research Articles should present originality in findings and insights and offer theoretical, empirical, experimental and/or methodological advances to their respective fields of research. Null and negative findings and reanalyses of previous studies leading to new results, as well as confirmatory results, are also encouraged. You can find our published Research Articles here.

• Brief Report

Brief Reports are small, often preliminary studies, that contain only essential references, and minimal tables and figures, placing full attention on empirical methods, results and data analysis, and the implications of those results. Brief Reports focus on issues of methodology and observation, and can be viewed here.

• Data Note

Data Notes are brief descriptions of quantitative or qualitative datasets that promote the potential reuse of research data and include details of why and how the data were created; they do not include any analyses or conclusions. Data Notes should support FAIR principles. Data collected must describe data generated and owned by the authors. Where applicable, authors should cite and summarize any previous publications that use the data presented. View our published Data Notes.

• Method Article

Method Articles describe new and well tested experimental, observational, theoretical or computational methods or procedures, either quantitative or qualitative. This includes new study methods, substantive modifications to existing methods or innovative applications of existing methods to new models. Read our published Method Articles here.

• Software Tool Article

A Software Tool Article should include the rationale for the development of the tool and details of the code used for its construction. The article should provide examples of suitable input data sets and include an example of the output that can be expected from the tool and how this output should be interpreted. Software Tool Articles submitted to Open Research Europe should be written in open-access programming languages. There are some interesting Software Tool Articles available to read on ORE.

• Review

Reviews should provide a balanced and comprehensive overview of the latest discoveries in a particular field. View our latest Reviews here.

• Open Letter

Open Letters usually discuss policies relevant to a broad research community, present guidelines or white papers, or announce new initiatives. They do not include new data and analysis.

The Humanities and Social Sciences

If your work is specific to the Humanities and Social Sciences, you might find the following article types beneficial for your research:

• Essay

Essays are analytic or interpretive literary opinions on a single topic. This could include work outlining a reflective argument or a personal point of view. We have a number of published Essays available to read.

• Systematic Review

Systematic Reviews should deal with a clearly formulated question and use systematic and explicit methods to identify, select, and critically assess the relevant research. Read through our published Systematic Reviews.

• Study Protocol

Study Protocols describe in detail any study design, including (but not limited to) experimental design of basic and applied research, systematic reviews, or protocols defining research questions and empirical methods. Study pre-protocols (i.e. discussing provisional study designs) may also be submitted and will be clearly labelled as such when published. Study Protocols for pilot and feasibility studies are also considered. Browse through our current Study Protocols here.

• Registered Report

Registered Reports are a form of empirical article in which the methods and proposed analyses are published and peer-reviewed prior to research being conducted. This format seeks to neutralise a variety of inappropriate research practices, including inadequate statistical power, and selective reporting of results.

The publication and review process for Registered Reports is divided into two stages. In Stage 1, reviewers assess published Study Protocols before data is collected. Authors can then refine their proposed methodology based on feedback from reviewers, before collecting any data. In Stage 2, reviewers consider the full published study as a Research Article. 

For Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine (STEM)

There are a few other article types that lend themselves particularly well to STEM:

• Case Report

A medical Case Report should be original and provide adequate detail of a single patient case. It does not need to describe an especially novel or unusual case as there is benefit from collecting details of many standard cases.

• Clinical Practice Article

Clinical Practice Articles describe case series (i.e. group or series of case reports involving patients who were given similar treatment), but should not be based on a single case (single cases are published as Case Reports).