[HN Gopher] Many researchers were not compliant with their publi...
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       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)
        
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       | 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.
        
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