Researchers tend to share data on request rather than through repositories.
Researchers in some fields are more likely to share data in response to personal requests than by routinely submitting to public repositories, says a study (J. C. Wallis et al. PLoS ONE 8, e67332; 2013). The authors conducted 43 interviews with researchers who use wireless sensing, including biologists and seismologists; in more than two-thirds, participants did not report submitting to repositories, sometimes because a suitable one did not exist or because they wanted to know how data would be used. Co-author Jillian Wallis, an information-studies researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, emphasizes that using repositories makes data easier to find and increases citations.
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Private beats public. Nature 500, 369 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7462-369c
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