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<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Florence Piron</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:florence.piron@com.ulaval.ca">florence.piron@com.ulaval.ca</a>></span><br>Date: 4 May 2015 at 21:04<br>Subject: [open-science] A Reputation Economy: Results from an Empirical Survey on Academic Data Sharing<br>To: <a href="mailto:open-science@lists.okfn.org">open-science@lists.okfn.org</a><br><br><br>
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Very interesting study.<br>
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<a href="http://www.ratswd.de/dl/RatSWD_WP_246.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.ratswd.de/dl/RatSWD_WP_246.pdf</a><br>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.000000pt;font-family:'Garamond'">Academic data sharing is a way for
researchers to collaborate and thereby meet the needs
of an
increasingly complex research landscape. It enables
researchers to verify results and to pursuit
new research questions with “old” data. It is
therefore not surprising that data sharing is
advocated by funding agencies, journals, and
researchers alike. We surveyed 2661 individual
academic researchers across all disciplines on their
dealings with data, their publication practices,
and motives for sharing or withholding research data.
The results for </span><span style="font-size:12.000000pt;font-family:'Garamond';background-color:rgb(100.000000%,100.000000%,100.000000%)">1564 valid responses </span><span style="font-size:12.000000pt;font-family:'Garamond'">show
that researchers across disciplines recognise the
benefit of secondary research data for their own
work and for scientific progress as a whole—still they
only practice it in moderation. An
explanation for this evidence could be an academic
system that is not driven by monetary
incentives, nor the desire for scientific progress,
but by individual reputation—expressed in (high
ranked journal) publications. We label this system a </span><span style="font-size:12.000000pt;font-family:'Garamond';font-style:italic">Reputation Economy</span><span style="font-size:12.000000pt;font-family:'Garamond'">. This special economy
explains our findings that show that researchers have
a nuanced idea how to provide adequate
formal recognition for making data available to
others—namely data citations. We conclude that
data sharing will only be widely adopted among
research professionals if sharing </span><span style="font-size:12.000000pt;font-family:'Garamond';font-style:italic">pays </span><span style="font-size:12.000000pt;font-family:'Garamond'">in form of
reputation. Thus, policy measures that intend to
foster research collaboration need to understand
academia as a reputation economy. Successful measures
must value intermediate products, such
as research data, more highly than it is the case now.
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