How do we share data in COVID-19 research? A systematic review of COVID-19 datasets in PubMed Central Articles.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study aims at reviewing novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) datasets extracted from PubMed Central articles, thus providing quantitative analysis to answer questions related to dataset contents, accessibility and citations.

Methods

We downloaded COVID-19-related full-text articles published until 31 May 2020 from PubMed Central. Dataset URL links mentioned in full-text articles were extracted, and each dataset was manually reviewed to provide information on 10 variables: (1) type of the dataset, (2) geographic region where the data were collected, (3) whether the dataset was immediately downloadable, (4) format of the dataset files, (5) where the dataset was hosted, (6) whether the dataset was updated regularly, (7) the type of license used, (8) whether the m

SUBMITTER: Zuo X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7799277 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature