The article linked below (preprint) was recently shared on arXiv.
Title
The Citation Advantage of Linking Publications to Research Data
Authors
Giovanni Colavizza
The Alan Turing Institute
University of Amsterdam
Iain Hrynaszkiewicz
Springer Nature
Public Library of Science
Isla Staden
The Alan Turing Institute
Queen Mary University
Kirstie Whitaker
The Alan Turing Institute
University of Cambridge
Barbara McGillivray
The Alan Turing Institute
University of Cambridge
Source
via arXiv
Abstract
Efforts to make research results open and reproducible are increasingly reflected by journal policies encouraging or mandating authors to provide data availability statements. As a consequence of this, there has been a strong uptake of data availability statements in recent literature. Nevertheless, it is still unclear what proportion of these statements actually contain well-formed links to data, for example via a URL or permanent identifier, and if there is an added value in providing them.
We consider 531,889 journal articles published by PLOS and BMC which are part of the PubMed Open Access collection, categorize their data availability statements according to their content and analyze the citation advantage of different statement categories via regression.
We find that, following mandated publisher policies, data availability statements have become common by now, yet statements containing a link to a repository are still just a fraction of the total. We also find that articles with these statements, in particular, can have up to 25.36% higher citation impact on average: an encouraging result for all publishers and authors who make the effort of sharing their data. All our data and code are made available in order to reproduce and extend our results.
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18 pages; PDF.
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