Data sharing policies of journals in life, health, and physical sciences indexed in Journal Citation Reports.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many scholarly journals have established their own data-related policies, which specify their enforcement of data sharing, the types of data to be submitted, and their procedures for making data available. However, except for the journal impact factor and the subject area, the factors associated with the overall strength of the data sharing policies of scholarly journals remain unknown. This study examines how factors, including impact factor, subject area, type of journal publisher, and geographical location of the publisher are related to the strength of the data sharing policy.

Methods

From each of the 178 categories of the Web of Science's 2017 edition of Journal Citation Reports, the top journals in each quartile (Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4) were selected in D

SUBMITTER: Kim J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7566749 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature