reputation as (dis)incentive

Reputationas incentive

Heather  Piwowar  @researchremix  DataONE  postdoc  with  NESCent  and  Dryad

#sameAs  on  Reputation,  May  2011  

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/09/euwf/ho_24.45.1.htm

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jsmjr/62443357/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/camilleharrington/3587294608/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rkuhnau/3318245976/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/conformpdx/1796399674/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rkuhnau/3317418699/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zemlinki/261617721/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tracenmatt/3020786491/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/the-o/2078239333/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sunrise/35819369/

Note:log scale

~70%

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanr/142455033/

Reputationas incentive

Reputationas incentive

Reputationas disincentive

http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshb/25983792

http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshb/25983792

http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshb/25983792

http://www.flickr.com/photos/supersam5/216868485/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/commissariat/4829261601/in/faves-30112411@N02/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/commissariat/4829261601/in/faves-30112411@N02/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/samrich2003/175520596/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nuttinbutlove/2954520460/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellyloveswhales/4009156878/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/supersam5/216868485/

Reputation

Standard practice

“An inherent principle of publication is that others should be able to replicate and build upon the authors' published claims. Therefore, a condition of publication in a Nature journal is that authors are required to make materials, data and associated protocols available in a publicly accessible database …”

http://www.nature.com/authors/editorial_policies/availability.html

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v453/n7197/index.html

journal  data  sharing  policy

High-impact journals

tend to have

a strong data-sharing

policy

Piwowar ELPUB 2008

Articles published in journals with a strong data-sharing policy are more likely to have publicly

available datasets

Piwowar ELPUB 2008

Odds Ratio0.25 0.50 1.00 2.00 4.00 8.00

Has journal policy

Count of R01 & other NIH grants

Authors prev GEOAE sharing & OA & microarray creation

NOT K funding or P funding

Journal impact

Institution high citations & collaboration

Journal policy consequences & long halflife

Instititution is government & NOT higher ed

NOT institution NCI or intramural

NOT animals or mice

Last author num prev pubs & first year pub

Large NIH grant

First author num prev pubs & first year pub

Humans & cancer

NOT geo reuse & YES high institution output

Piwowar, PLoS ONE 2011 (soon), Who shares? Who doesn’t?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sunrise/35819369/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/youraddresshere/6649228/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/huzzahvintage/4577075021/

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