Table 1.
Participant titles and research areas.
Fig 1.
Ratings of research practice maturity.
Average ratings of research practice maturity on scale from 1 (ad-hoc) to 5 (refined) between (A) and within (B-D) three phases of an MRI research project (data collection, data analysis, and data sharing). (A) Participants rated their own practices as significantly more mature than those of the field as a whole during the data collection and analysis phases. Ratings of both individual and field maturity were significantly lower during the data sharing/publishing phase than during data collection and analysis. [Data collection: n = 131 (individual), 130 (field), data analysis: n = 118 (individual/field), data sharing: 116 (individual/field)]. Ratings of individual activities within each phase reflected a similar trend. (B) Practices related to the backup of raw data and securing of sensitive data were rated as highly mature during the data collection phase while the documentation of file organization schemes (such as through a lab notebook or data dictionary) received the lowest rating [n = 132]. (C) Similarly, during the data analysis phase, the backup of analyzed data received the highest rating, while the documentation of decisions related to analytical pipelines and the use of computational tools received the lowest [n = 120]. (D) Activities described in the data sharing phase received lower ratings than those in previous phases [n = 116].
Table 2.
Research data management limits and motivations.
Table 3.
Types of data collected.
Table 4.
Analysis software used.
Table 5.
Reasons why data can and cannot be shared.
Table 6.
Important parts of data to preserve long term.
Fig 2.
Adoption of emerging research practices.
Percent of participants who have (purple) and who plan to in the future (blue) [n = 100].