Impact of Social Sciences – Is withholding your data simply bad science, or should it fall under scientific misconduct?

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-07-06

Summary:

"A recent study sent data requests to 200 authors of economics articles where it was stated ‘data available upon request’. Most of the authors refused. What does the scientific community think about those withholding their data? Are they guilty of scientific misconduct? Nicole Janz argues that if you don’t share your data, you are breaking professional standards in research, and are thus committing scientific misconduct. Classifying data secrecy as misconduct may be a harsh, but it is a necessary step ..."

Link:

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2015/07/03/data-secrecy-bad-science-or-scientific-misconduct/

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oa.new oa.comment oa.data oa.economics oa.policies oa.best_practices oa.ssh

Date tagged:

07/06/2015, 19:33

Date published:

07/06/2015, 15:33