Add to ORKGThere is currently little incentive for researchers to share their data. But what if it was enough for journals to simply ask authors to make their data available? Michèle B. Nuijten reports on a recent study that found journal policies that encourage data sharing to be extremely effective, with a steep increase in the percentage of articles with open data from the moment these policies took effect. Even something as seemingly frivolous as offering a badge to display on your paper as a reward for sharing data can have a transformative effect, not only on the overall availability of data but also on its relevance, usability and completeness, as well as on the rigour and quality of science as a whole
The peer review process has been subjected to a steady stream of criticism in recent years. This has...
There is now a broad consensus that sharing and preserving data makes research more efficient, repro...
The appeal of collaborating with a government agency, or an organisation funded by one, seems obviou...
Data sharing is a key part of the drive towards greater openness in scientific research, allowing re...
Data sharing is a key principle of open science, and research funders are increasingly including thi...
One of the proposed advantages of open access publication is that it increases the impact of academi...
Making data available for other researchers to find, use, reuse, and reproduce is fundamental to ope...
Until relatively recently the ability to exploit new data for open access books was restricted to la...
It is increasingly common for researchers to make their data freely available. This is often a requi...
The case for open data is increasingly inarguable. Improved data practice can help to address concer...
Text and data mining offers an opportunity to improve the way we access and analyse the outputs of a...
With more than 34,000 active scholarly peer-reviewed journals, how do authors choose which one to su...
As the value of research with impact increases, so too does the importance of first gaining access t...
The aggregation and linkage of data collected by different public services can often be presented un...
It has become increasingly clear that prevailing academic incentive structures have a potentially da...
The peer review process has been subjected to a steady stream of criticism in recent years. This has...
There is now a broad consensus that sharing and preserving data makes research more efficient, repro...
The appeal of collaborating with a government agency, or an organisation funded by one, seems obviou...
Data sharing is a key part of the drive towards greater openness in scientific research, allowing re...
Data sharing is a key principle of open science, and research funders are increasingly including thi...
One of the proposed advantages of open access publication is that it increases the impact of academi...
Making data available for other researchers to find, use, reuse, and reproduce is fundamental to ope...
Until relatively recently the ability to exploit new data for open access books was restricted to la...
It is increasingly common for researchers to make their data freely available. This is often a requi...
The case for open data is increasingly inarguable. Improved data practice can help to address concer...
Text and data mining offers an opportunity to improve the way we access and analyse the outputs of a...
With more than 34,000 active scholarly peer-reviewed journals, how do authors choose which one to su...
As the value of research with impact increases, so too does the importance of first gaining access t...
The aggregation and linkage of data collected by different public services can often be presented un...
It has become increasingly clear that prevailing academic incentive structures have a potentially da...
The peer review process has been subjected to a steady stream of criticism in recent years. This has...
There is now a broad consensus that sharing and preserving data makes research more efficient, repro...
The appeal of collaborating with a government agency, or an organisation funded by one, seems obviou...