What are considered as result oriented and best practices among scientists?

What are considered as result oriented and best practices among scientists?

We have some answers to this Q from one field now...
IOP Publishing and Research Information Network (RIN) released new report on information practices in the physical sciences. The latest findings are based on a survey of nearly 6,000 scientists around the world - a much broader view of scholarly communications in the physical sciences.
This report was prepared by the Research Information Network and IOP Publishing ...and is titled, "Information practices in the physical sciences: A quantitative study to evaluate the impact of digital technologies on research in the physical sciences"

While cross-border and cross-disciplinary collaborations are breaking down subject siloes across the physical sciences, a culture of traditional and DIY information practices still holds sway among scientists when it comes to the curation, management and publication of formal research findings.
The survey found that 70% of respondents had collaborated formally with researchers outside their own department in the last five years, with a further 16% collaborating informally.

At an individual level, the report identifies a widespread preference among physical scientists for building personal collections of research articles, with 87% of respondents storing the last article they read electronically (and 29% storing a paper copy as well).
Researchers are still making personal electronic libraries. The most popular storage method, by some way, was storage on a computer or laptop.
There's no such thing as a 'typical' physicist, what did stand out is the universal need to collect, own and manage research information. The methods of acquiring information may have changed, but the underlying behaviour certainly hasn't.
(Aha, I do all these things too!)

On dissemination, peer-reviewed journals remain the gold standard for sharing formal research outputs in the physical sciences, with 79% of respondents commonly sharing research findings, data or code through traditional journal publication. No other platform is as popular for sharing formal research outputs.
One-to-one emails were selected by 41% of respondents and personal or institutional websites by 30% of respondents, but it seems likely they were chosen as a way to raise awareness of formal findings published in journals.

RIN also asked researchers about their priorities over the next 10 years. Funding pressures, collaboration and research impact emerge as the big themes, with open access to data and public engagement of less concern.

Main points of the findings:

Source:
http://ioppublishing.org/img/news/RIN-info-practices-report.pdf