Foundational Studies for Measuring the Impact, Prevalence, and Patterns of Publicly Sharing Biomedical Research Data

Heather Piwowar's doctoral dissertation at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, approved March 24, 2010. (Congratulations, Heather!) Excerpt: "Previous survey methods for understanding data sharing patterns provide insight into investigator attitudes, but do not facilitate direct measurement of data sharing behaviour or its correlates. In this study, we evaluate and use bibliometric methods to understand the impact, prevalence, and patterns with which investigators publicly share their raw gene expression microarray datasets after study publication...."