[open-science] Brief persuasive case for data sharing?

Fri Sep 3 23:13:52 UTC 2010

  Heather,

I wondered if you have found this association holding up independently 
of the number of authors?

Angus Whyte,
DCC

On 03/09/2010 22:11, Heather Piwowar wrote:
> Thanks Dorothea!
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> That study was also published in PLoS ONE, in case you prefer a 
> non-dissertation citation:
> http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0000308
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> Similar, but earlier and with a way cooler title, is Gleditsch and 
> Strand's "Posting Your Data: Will You Be Scooped or Will You Be Famous?"
> http://www.prio.no/Research-and-Publications/Publication/?oid=55406
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> Chris, another argument I've often heard: publicly archive your data 
> so that you can find it again later, yourself :)
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> There's also lots to be said about "being the change you want to 
> see," supplemented with stats on the frequency and implications of 
> data withholding, etc.  Let me know if you want refs, or you can brave 
> a mongo list of refs on data sharing/withholding at Mendeley 
> <http://www.mendeley.com/research-papers/collections/3498871/Data-sharing-and-withholding/>. 
>  I have many relevant papers tagged with "motivation" or similar.
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> You might also find something useful in the latter part of these 
> presentations? (1 
> <http://www.slideshare.net/hpiwowar/why-study-data-sharing-why-share-your-data%20>, 
> 2 
> <http://www.slideshare.net/hpiwowar/measuring-the-adoption-of-open-science-presentation>)
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> Let me know if I can be of more help....
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> Heather
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> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Dorothea Salo 
> <dorothea.salo at gmail.com <mailto:dorothea.salo at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Maybe try this:
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>     “Publicly available data was significantly (p=0.006) associated with a
>     69% increase in citations, independently of journal impact factor,
>     date of publication, and author country of origin.” Piwowar, Heather.
>     “Foundational studies for measuring the impact, prevalence, and
>     patterns of publicly sharing biomedical research data.” Dissertation,
>     University of Pittsburgh, 2010.
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>     I just popped it into a slideshow of mine. I've also seen people use
>     the recent NYT story about data-sharing and Alzheimer's, though it's
>     not quite a paradigm case because the data there weren't fully open.
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>     Dorothea
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