Research data sharing mechanism needs to be improved

On June 21, a study published by the official website of "Nature" showed that in the actual operation, many researchers did not implement the willingness to share research data.

According to the research team of Croatian Catholic University, in the 3556 biomedical and health science articles published by 282 journals under the British Modern Biological Publishing Group, 381 articles indicate the link of online data storage, the author of 1792 articles It is pointed out in the statement that their data sets are available under reasonable requirements. The rest of the articles stated that their data contains the content and supplementary materials published, or no data is generated, so there is no data sharing.

However, in 1792 articles that the author expressed his willingness to share data, more than 90%of the communications authors refused or did not respond to people's requests for viewing the original data. Even though some authors responded to sharing data, only 6.7%of the author who submitted the data in the format of the format. The study shows to a certain extent that many datasets have never been interviewed, and the statement of data availability is not significant.

Reasons for researchers who refuse to provide data are different. Some people have not obtained the consent or ethical approval of data sharing; some people have left the research project; some data positions are placed errors. Some continuous obstacles have affected the data sharing process of researchers, such as data privacy, confidentiality of participants, and data misuse of data. In addition, researchers are more inclined to use data to publish more original research, and data sharing may make their research lose their originality.

Studies have shown that most researchers have not fully understood the significance of data sharing. The data in the paper should be "ready, a unified format, and available for everyone." In order to encourage researchers to better share the data, the journals should further standardize the data sharing statement. The statement includes the requirements of the author to explain in detail where to share the original data, who, when, and where to access these data.

Source: China Social Science Network-Journal of Social Sciences of China

Author: Wang Junmei/Compilation

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