Open data linked to higher citations for journal articles | News | Chemistry World

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Summary:

"Research papers that make their underlying data openly available are significantly more likely to be cited in future work, according to an analysis led by researchers at the Alan Turing Institute in London that has been published as a preprint. The study, which is currently under peer review, examined nearly 532,000 articles in over 350 open access journals published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) and BioMed Central (BMC) between 1997 and 2018, and found those that linked directly to source data sets received 25% more citations on average...."

Link:

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/open-data-linked-to-higher-citations-for-journal-articles/3010723.article

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Date tagged:

07/11/2019, 12:54

Date published:

07/11/2019, 08:54