Sharing Detailed Research Data Is Associated with Increased Citation Rate

Heather A. Piwowar; Roger S. Day; Douglas B. Fridsma

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000308

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Sharing Detailed Research Data Is Associated with Increased Citation Rate

Heather A. Piwowar ,

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: hpiwowar@cbmi.pitt.edu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Roger S. Day,

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Douglas B. Fridsma

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Sharing Detailed Research Data Is Associated with Increased Citation Rate

Heather A. Piwowar,
Roger S. Day,
Douglas B. Fridsma

Published: March 21, 2007
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000308

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Posted by coturnix on 13 Jul 2007 at 17:22 GMT

This is a very high increase in citations. Let's see if this study prompts more researchers to make their data freely available.

I am glad that you narrowed down your study to a single type of data - microarrays - and I'd like to see future comparisons to other types of data, e.g., in chemistry.

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