[HN Gopher] Many researchers were not compliant with their publi... ___________________________________________________________________ Many researchers were not compliant with their published data sharing statement Author : miohtama Score : 13 points Date : 2022-06-07 21:22 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.jclinepi.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.jclinepi.com) | joebob42 wrote: | Why do researchers add these statements in the first place if | they are pretty broadly not complying with them? Does it somehow | help them get published just to have the statement there? | joshvm wrote: | Journals are increasingly requesting that authors provide | mandatory data availability statements. It doesn't necessarily | mean that the data should be open, just that the authors have | to declare if it is or not. Trouble is it's very difficult to | _prove_ a statement like "We intend to release our code and | data as open source at <repository>", unless you hard-enforce | that things are provided at publication time (and then you're | assuming the reviewers will actually check, compile, etc.) | Isamu wrote: | Many researchers are just cranking out papers to meet some | metric, and a Data Availability Statement (DAS) is just a bit | of boilerplate to make your paper seem more plausible. | | I think this paper shows that it is just more research theater, | meant to distract. | nneonneo wrote: | Some journals make these statements mandatory; for others, not | promising to share your data can be a significant obstacle to | publication (e.g. reviewers may ask why the data is not being | made available). | pythonguython wrote: | I only have a bachelor's degree, but I've worked in research labs | and read a lot of papers. I've always thought it was silly that | all data, design documents, and code is not published as a | standard. Is it just protocol from a time when it was more | difficult to share data and designs? In the modern era, why | shouldn't research colleges and journals maintain a digital | database of data, design documents, and code? | bsder wrote: | > In the modern era, why shouldn't research colleges and | journals maintain a digital database of data, design documents, | and code? | | Because the incentive in academia is to take a single idea that | kinda works and parcel it out into as many, generally low | quality, published papers as you can. | | The moment you release the data somebody else can start | parceling out those papers instead of you. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-06-07 23:00 UTC)