A paper can be easy to find and still hard to use. And when a method is hard to use, it often isn’t reproduced at all, or worse, it’s reproduced incorrectly.
For complex methods, impact depends not only on visibility, but on whether another lab can actually follow what you did.
This challenge was apparent in JoVE’s recent webinar with Dr. Donald E. Ingber, Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and Founding Director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University.