Data sharing

2023-11-08 Wed

Rick Gilmore

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Data sharing

Barriers to data sharing

Houtkoop, B. L., Chambers, C., Macleod, M., Bishop, D. V. M., Nichols, T. E. & Wagenmakers, E.-J. (2018). Data sharing in psychology: A survey on barriers and preconditions. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1(1), 70–85. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245917751886

Figure 1 from (Houtkoop et al., 2018).

Figure 2 from (Houtkoop et al., 2018)

Figure 3 from (Houtkoop et al., 2018)

Figure 4 from (Houtkoop et al., 2018)

Conclusions

• Public data sharing is not a common practice among research psychologists.

• Respondents considered data sharing to be both desirable and profitable for their particular research fields, but somewhat less desirable and profitable in the case of their own current research projects.

• The non-fear-related barriers to data sharing most frequently reported by respondents were that (a) sharing is not a common practice in their field, (b) they prefer to share their data only upon request, (c) they consider preparing data for sharing to be excessively time-consuming, and (d) they have never learned to share data online.

• Respondents believed that the largest fear-related obstacles preventing other researchers from sharing their data are the fear that alternative analyses might expose invalid conclusions and the fear of loss of control.

• Respondents reported that their greatest fears about sharing their own data are that the data might be misinterpreted and they might be scooped.

• In general, respondents felt that fear-related barriers affected other researchers more strongly than themselves.

• Mandatory data sharing (enforced by institutions, journals, or funders) and financial encouragement (i.e., increased grant amounts) are measures that would apparently be highly effective in increasing researchers’ willingness to share their data.

(Houtkoop et al., 2018)

Transparency & reproducibility notes

  • Study preregistered
  • Data shared

Your turn

Your turn

  • How would you characterize the “climate” around data sharing within the psychology community sampled by (Houtkoop et al., 2018)
  • Do the “fear-related barriers” make sense to you? Why or why not?
  • How might these be addressed or overcome?
  • Are mandates the best or only solution?

Data sharing at Penn State

Gilmore, R. O., Hillary, F., Lazar, N. & Wham, B. (2023). Penn State Open Science Survey. Retrieved August 1, 2023, from https://penn-state-open-science.github.io/survey-fall-2022/

Penn State researchers

Sharing with collaborators

Figure 22.10 from (Gilmore et al., 2023)

Barriers to sharing

Where store data

Figure 22.9 from (Gilmore et al., 2023)

Where shared

Figure 22.15 from (Gilmore et al., 2023)

Importance of sharing

Figure 22.11 from (Gilmore et al., 2023)

Obstacles to sharing

Figure 22.12 from (Gilmore et al., 2023)

Where data are shared

Figure 22.15 from (Gilmore et al., 2023)

Your turn

Your turn

  • How would you characterize the “climate” around data sharing at Penn State?
  • What advice would you give faculty, staff, and students interested in fostering open science here?

A global perspective

Tenopir, C., Rice, N. M., Allard, S., Baird, L., Borycz, J., Christian, L., Grant, B., Olendorf, R. & Sandusky, R. J. (2020). Data sharing, management, use, and reuse: Practices and perceptions of scientists worldwide. PloS One, 15(3), e0229003. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229003.

Fields

Table 1 from (Tenopir et al., 2020)

Where data are stored

Table 2 from (Tenopir et al., 2020)

Practices, perceptions, & barriers

Table 7 from (Tenopir et al., 2020)

Table 8 from (Tenopir et al., 2020)

Next time

Work session: Data sharing

Resources

References

PSYCH 490.009: 2023-11-08 Wed

Gilmore, R. O., & Adolph, K. E. (2017). Video can make behavioural research more reproducible. Nature Human Behavior, 1. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0128
Gilmore, R. O., Hillary, F., Lazar, N., & Wham, B. (2023). Penn state open science survey. https://penn-state-open-science.github.io/survey-fall-2022/index.html. Retrieved from https://penn-state-open-science.github.io/survey-fall-2022/index.html
Houtkoop, B. L., Chambers, C., Macleod, M., Bishop, D. V. M., Nichols, T. E., & Wagenmakers, E.-J. (2018). Data sharing in psychology: A survey on barriers and preconditions. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 2515245917751886. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245917751886
Massey, W. (2023). Penn state denied students access to campus crime data. A student wants a federal investigation. Centre Daily Times. Retrieved from https://www.centredaily.com/news/local/education/penn-state/article281487803.html
Meyer, M. N. (2018). Practical tips for ethical data sharing. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 2515245917747656. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245917747656
Tenopir, C., Rice, N. M., Allard, S., Baird, L., Borycz, J., Christian, L., … Sandusky, R. J. (2020). Data sharing, management, use, and reuse: Practices and perceptions of scientists worldwide. PloS One, 15(3), e0229003. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229003