Research Data in Core Journals in Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics

This study takes a stratified random sample of articles published in 2014 from the top 10 journals in the disciplines of biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics, as ranked by impact factor. Sampled articles were examined for their reporting of original data or reuse of prior data, and were code...

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Published in:PloS one 2015-12, Vol.10 (12), p.e0143460
Main Author: Womack, Ryan P
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bibliometrics
Biology
Chemistry
Citation analysis
Data Interpretation, Statistical
Data retrieval
Digital preservation
Ecosystem biology
Ecosystems
Humans
Information Dissemination
Information sharing
Institutional repositories
Journal Impact Factor
Librarians
Mathematical analysis
Mathematics
Observational studies
Open data
Periodicals as Topic
Physics
Reproducibility
Research data management
Research methodology
Researchers
Social sciences
Studies
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Summary:This study takes a stratified random sample of articles published in 2014 from the top 10 journals in the disciplines of biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics, as ranked by impact factor. Sampled articles were examined for their reporting of original data or reuse of prior data, and were coded for whether the data was publicly shared or otherwise made available to readers. Other characteristics such as the sharing of software code used for analysis and use of data citation and DOIs for data were examined. The study finds that data sharing practices are still relatively rare in these disciplines' top journals, but that the disciplines have markedly different practices. Biology top journals share original data at the highest rate, and physics top journals share at the lowest rate. Overall, the study finds that within the top journals, only 13% of articles with original data published in 2014 make the data available to others.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0143460