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Incentives for better practice.

Posted by dmellor887 on 08 Jan 2019 at 20:22 GMT

The authors mention in the conclusion that "...personal incentives such as data citations should be more widely used to increase the impact of a particular dataset and provide recognition or credit for data creation." I would encourage addition of some of the literature that looks into the association between open data and citation advantages, as well as the association between badges and open data as a way to reduce compliance costs. Below are studies about which I am aware:


Dorch, B. (2012, July 5). On the Citation Advantage of linking to data. Retrieved from https://hal-hprints.archi...

Henneken, E. A., & Accomazzi, A. (2011). Linking to Data - Effect on Citation Rates in Astronomy. ArXiv:1111.3618 [Astro-Ph]. Retrieved from http://arxiv.org/abs/1111...

Kidwell, M. C., Lazarević, L. B., Baranski, E., Hardwicke, T. E., Piechowski, S., Falkenberg, L.-S., … Nosek, B. A. (2016). Badges to Acknowledge Open Practices: A Simple, Low-Cost, Effective Method for Increasing Transparency. PLOS Biol, 14(5), e1002456. https://doi.org/10.1371/j...

Piwowar, H. A., Day, R. S., & Fridsma, D. B. (2007). Sharing Detailed Research Data Is Associated with Increased Citation Rate. PLOS ONE, 2(3), e308. https://doi.org/10.1371/j...

Piwowar, H. A., & Vision, T. J. (2013). Data reuse and the open data citation advantage. PeerJ, 1, e175. https://doi.org/10/f3mn68

Rowhani-Farid, A., & Barnett, A. G. (2018). Badges for sharing data and code at Biostatistics: an observational study. F1000Research, 7, 90. https://doi.org/10/gdsnhw

Competing interests declared: I advocate for open science practices and incentives to achieve them through my work at the Center for Open Science, which maintains the Open Science Badges criteria (https://cos.io/badges).

RE: Incentives for better practice.

jcouture replied to dmellor887 on 08 Jan 2019 at 23:46 GMT

Yes, thank you for adding citations to support these claims!

No competing interests declared.