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What Drives Academic Data Sharing?
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Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD)
Abstract Despite widespread support from policy makers, funding agencies, and scientific journals, academic researchers rarely make their research data available to others. At the same time, data sharing in research is attributed a vast potential for scientific progress. It allows the reproducibility of stud... view more
Despite widespread support from policy makers, funding agencies, and scientific journals, academic researchers rarely make their research data available to others. At the same time, data sharing in research is attributed a vast potential for scientific progress. It allows the reproducibility of study results and the reuse of old data for new research questions. Based on a systematic review of 98 scholarly papers and an empirical survey among 603 secondary data users, we develop a conceptual framework that explains the process of data sharing from the primary researcher's point of view. We show that this process can be divided into six descriptive categories: Data donor, research organization, research community, norms, data infrastructure, and data recipients . Drawing from our findings, we discuss theoretical implications regarding knowledge creation and dissemination as well as research policy measures to foster academic collaboration. We conclude that research data cannot be regarded a knowledge commons, but research policies that better incentivize data sharing are needed to improve the quality of research results and foster scientific progress.... view less
Classification
Research, Research Organization
Philosophy of Science, Theory of Science, Methodology, Ethics of the Social Sciences
Free Keywords
Academia; Commons-based Peer Production; Crowd Science; Data Sharing; Knowledge Commons; Research Policy; Systematic Review
Document language
English
Publication Year
2014
City
Berlin
Page/Pages
30 p.
Series
RatSWD Working Paper Series, 236
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10419/96241
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications