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Sharing Detailed Research Data Is Associated with Increased Citation Rate

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Piwowar, Heather A., Day, Roger S., Fridsma, Douglas B.·2007·PLoS ONE
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0000308PMC PMC1817752
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BACKGROUND: Sharing 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. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: 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. SIGNIFICANCE: This correlation between publicly available data and increased literature impact may further motivate investigators to share their detailed research data.

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Figure 1 Distribution of 2004–2005 citation counts of 85 trials by data availability. The 41 clinical trial publications which publicly shared their microarray data received more citations, in general, than the 44 publications which did not share their microarray data. In this plot of the distribution of citation counts received by each publication, the extent of the box encompasses the interquartile range of the citation counts, whiskers extend to 1.5 times the interquartile range, and lines within the boxes represent medians.
Figure 1 Distribution of 2004–2005 citation counts of 85 trials by data availability. The 41 clinical trial publications which publicly shared their microarray data received more citations, in general, than the 44 publications which did not share their microarray data. In this plot of the distribution of citation counts received by each publication, the extent of the box encompasses the interquartile range of the citation counts, whiskers extend to 1.5 times the interquartile range, and lines within the boxes represent medians.CC BY · PubMed Central
Figure 2 Distribution of 2004–2005 citation counts of the 70 lower-profile trials by data availability. For trials which were published after 2000 and in journals with an impact factor less than 25, the 27 clinical trial publications which publicly shared their microarray data received more citations, in general, than the 43 publications which did not share their microarray data. In this plot of the distribution of citation counts received by each publication, the extent of the box encompasses the interquartile range of the citation counts, whiskers extend to 1.5 times the interquartile range, and lines within the boxes represent medians.
Figure 2 Distribution of 2004–2005 citation counts of the 70 lower-profile trials by data availability. For trials which were published after 2000 and in journals with an impact factor less than 25, the 27 clinical trial publications which publicly shared their microarray data received more citations, in general, than the 43 publications which did not share their microarray data. In this plot of the distribution of citation counts received by each publication, the extent of the box encompasses the interquartile range of the citation counts, whiskers extend to 1.5 times the interquartile range, and lines within the boxes represent medians.CC BY · PubMed Central

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Authors
Piwowar, H. A., Day, R. S., & Fridsma, D. B.
Affiliations
University of Pittsburgh (US)
Corresponding author
Piwowar, Heather A.
ORCID
Venue
PLoS ONE
Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Published
2007-03-21
Volume
2
Issue
3
Pages
e308
ISSN
1932-6203 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0000308
PMC
PMC1817752
OpenAlex
W2046766973
Cited by
881
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39
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FWCI
50.78
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • PLoS ONE (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • D-Scholarship@Pitt (University of Pittsburgh) (acceptedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health
  • U.S. National Library of Medicine (T15LM007059)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Research Data Management Practices
  • Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
  • Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Academic Publishing and Open Access
Keywords
research data sharing, data availability, citation impact, public data, journal impact factor
MeSH terms
Clinical Trials as Topic, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Humans, Neoplasms, Periodicals as Topic, Publications, Regression Analysis, Internet, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Information Dissemination, Biomedical Research, Journal Impact Factor

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