Did awarding badges increase data sharing in BMJ Open? A randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT: Sharing data and code are important components of reproducible research. Data sharing in research is widely discussed in the literature; however, there are no well-established evidence-based incentives that reward data sharing, nor randomized studies that demonstrate the effectiveness of data sharing policies at increasing data sharing. A simple incentive, such as an Open Data Badge, might provide the change needed to increase data sharing in health and medical research. This study was a parallel group randomized controlled trial (protocol registration: doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/PXWZQ) with two groups, control and intervention, with 80 research articles published in BMJ Open per group, with a total of 160 research articles. The intervention group received an email offer for an Open Data B

SUBMITTER: Rowhani-Farid A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7137948 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature