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Sharing Detailed Research Data Is Associated with Increased Citation Rate
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- Received 05 July 2007 15:24 UTC; Posted 05 July 2007
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Piwowar HA, Day RS, Fridsma DB (2007) Sharing Detailed Research Data Is Associated with Increased Citation Rate. PLoS ONE 2(3): e308. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000308Sharing research data provides benefit to the general scientific community, but the benefit is less obvious for the investigator who makes his or her data available.
We examined the citation history of 85 cancer microarray clinical trial publications with respect to the availability of their data. The 48% of trials with publicly available microarray data received 85% of the aggregate citations. Publicly available data was significantly (p = 0.006) associated with a 69% increase in citations, independently of journal impact factor, date of publication, and author country of origin using linear regression.
This correlation between publicly available data and increased literature impact may further motivate investigators to share their detailed research data.
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Piwowar, Heather. Sharing Detailed Research Data Is Associated with Increased Citation Rate. Available from Nature Precedings <http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npre.2007.361.1> (2007)
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Jean-Claude Bradley on 13 July 2007 09:59 UTC
Your work is of immense value to those who are interested in Open Data in science. It is very useful to be able to cite a thorough study on its benefits. Keep writing and talking about it!