Buongiorno,
Come ogni anno da 7 anni, Figshare (insieme a digital science e springer
nature) ha pubblicato lo
State of open data report.
https://group.springernature.com/gp/group/media/press-releases/state-of-open-data-report-2022/23590506?utm_medium=social&utm_content=organic&utm_source=linkedin&utm_campaign=SMT_&sf260501336=1
Riassunto dei punti chiave messi in evidenza dal report:
Support for open data
- Four out of every five respondents are in favour of research data being
made openly available as common practice.
- 74% of respondents reported sharing their data during publication.
- Approximately one fifth of respondents reported having no concerns about
sharing data openly – this proportion has been steadily growing since 2018.
- 88% of researchers surveyed are supportive of making research articles
open access (OA) as a common scholarly practice.
Motivations and benefits
- When it comes to researchers sharing their data, citations of research
papers (67%) and increased impact and visibility of papers (61%) outweigh
public benefit or journal/publisher mandate (both 56%) as motivation.
- Of those who had previously shared data, 66% had received some form of
recognition for their efforts – most commonly via full citation in another
article (41%) followed by co-authorship on a paper that had used the data.
- A third of respondents indicated they had been involved in a research
collaboration as a result of data they had previously shared.
Open data mandates
- 70% of respondents were required to follow a policy on data sharing for
their most recent piece of research.
- More than two-thirds of respondents are supportive “to some extent” of a
national mandate for making research data openly available. This number has
been declining since 2019.
- Just over half (52%) of respondents in the 2022 survey felt that sharing
data should be a part of the requirement for awarding research grants.
Again, this number has been declining since 2019.
Drawbacks
- Only 19% of respondents believe that researchers get sufficient credit
for sharing their data, while 75% say they receive too little credit.
- Just under a quarter of respondents indicated that they had previously
received support with planning, managing or sharing their research data.
- The greatest concern among respondents is misuse of their data (35%).
- The key needs of researchers which were felt more training or information
would improve were better understanding and definitions for policies for
access, sharing and reuse (55%) as well as long-term storage and data
management strategies (52%) – things that impact both ends of the research
cycle.
Key demographics of respondents
- Researchers from China now comprise 11% of all respondents, equal with
that of the United States. China and the US are the two countries with the
biggest response to the survey, followed by India, Japan, Germany, Italy,
UK, Canada, Brazil, France and Spain.
- 31% of respondents were early career researchers (ECRs), while a further
31% classed themselves as senior researchers.
- Most respondents (42%) were from medicine & life sciences; 38% from
mathematics, physics and applied sciences; and 17% from humanities and
social sciences (an increase of 3%).
- Respondents were broadly categorised as: Open science advocates (32%),
Open publishing advocates (26%), Cautiously pro open science (25%), Open
science agnostics (11%), and Non-believers of open science (6%).
Inoltre il CERN ha pubblicato una nuova policy sulla Open Science.
https://home.cern/news/news/knowledge-sharing/cern-publishes-comprehensive-open-science-policy
Costituita da 9 elementi:
https://openscience.cern/OS-elements
Maria Bellantone, PhD
Research Support Office
Eurac Research
