Dental Research Data Availability and Quality According to the FAIR Principles.

ABSTRACT: According to the FAIR principles, data produced by scientific research should be findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable-for instance, to be used in machine learning algorithms. However, to date, there is no estimate of the quantity or quality of dental research data evaluated via the FAIR principles. We aimed to determine the availability of open data in dental research and to assess compliance with the FAIR principles (or FAIRness) of shared dental research data. We downloaded all available articles published in PubMed-indexed dental journals from 2016 to 2021 as open access from Europe PubMed Central. In addition, we took a random sample of 500 dental articles that were not open access through Europe PubMed Central. We assessed data sharing in the articles and compliance of sh

SUBMITTER: Uribe SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9516597 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature