Public Data Archiving in Ecology and Evolution: How Well Are We Doing?
Public Data Archiving in Ecology and Evolution: How Well Are We Doing?
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DOI：
10.1371/journal.pbio.1002295
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发表时间：
2015
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影响因子：
9.8
通讯作者：
Binning SA
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作者：
Roche DG;Kruuk LE;Lanfear R;Binning SA
强制公共数据归档（PDA）的策略成功地增加了对科学出版物基础数据的访问。然而，数据质量是否足以允许重用和再分析？我们调查了100个与非分子研究相关的数据集，这些数据集通常发表生态和进化研究，并且具有强大的PDA政策。在这些数据集中，56%是不完整的，64%的归档方式部分或完全阻止了重用。我们认为，为了实现高质量的PDA，文化转变是必要的，以促进作者获得更明确的利益，并强调了帮助作者提高数据重用潜力和遵守期刊数据政策的关键指南。对要求数据存档的期刊上的100项研究的仔细审查显示，超过一半的研究不遵守其期刊的数据政策。
Policies that mandate public data archiving (PDA) successfully increase accessibility to data underlying scientific publications. However, is the data quality sufficient to allow reuse and reanalysis? We surveyed 100 datasets associated with nonmolecular studies in journals that commonly publish ecological and evolutionary research and have a strong PDA policy. Out of these datasets, 56% were incomplete, and 64% were archived in a way that partially or entirely prevented reuse. We suggest that cultural shifts facilitating clearer benefits to authors are necessary to achieve high-quality PDA and highlight key guidelines to help authors increase their data’s reuse potential and compliance with journal data policies. Careful scrutiny of one hundred studies in journals that mandate data archival reveals that over half do not comply with their journal’s data policy.