Empirical study of data sharing by authors publishing in PLoS journals.
Empirical study of data sharing by authors publishing in PLoS journals.
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DOI：
10.1371/journal.pone.0007078
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发表时间：
2009-09-18
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影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Vickers AJ
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作者：
Savage CJ;Vickers AJ
许多期刊现在要求作者与其他研究人员分享他们的数据，要么将数据存放在公共存储库中，要么根据要求免费提供。这些政策是明确的，但在很大程度上尚未经过检验。我们试图确定作者遵守这些政策的程度，方法是向在两种具有明确数据共享政策的期刊之一上发表过文章的作者索取数据。我们要求10名研究者提供数据，这些研究者在《公共科学图书馆医学》或《公共科学图书馆临床试验》上发表过文章。所有的回答都被仔细记录下来。如果我们被拒绝提供数据，我们会提醒作者注意该杂志的数据共享指南。如果我们没有收到对第一次请求的回应，我们会提出第二次请求。在10次原始数据请求之后，3名研究者没有回复，4名作者回复并拒绝分享他们的数据，2个电子邮件地址不再有效，1名作者要求提供更多细节。提醒PLoS明确要求作者分享数据并没有改变最初拒绝的四位作者的回复。只有一位作者提交了原始数据集。我们只收到了所要求的10组原始数据中的一组。这表明，要求数据共享的期刊政策不会导致作者将其数据集提供给独立调查人员。
Many journals now require authors share their data with other investigators, either by depositing the data in a public repository or making it freely available upon request. These policies are explicit, but remain largely untested. We sought to determine how well authors comply with such policies by requesting data from authors who had published in one of two journals with clear data sharing policies. We requested data from ten investigators who had published in either PLoS Medicine or PLoS Clinical Trials. All responses were carefully documented. In the event that we were refused data, we reminded authors of the journal's data sharing guidelines. If we did not receive a response to our initial request, a second request was made. Following the ten requests for raw data, three investigators did not respond, four authors responded and refused to share their data, two email addresses were no longer valid, and one author requested further details. A reminder of PLoS's explicit requirement that authors share data did not change the reply from the four authors who initially refused. Only one author sent an original data set. We received only one of ten raw data sets requested. This suggests that journal policies requiring data sharing do not lead to authors making their data sets available to independent investigators.