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Sharing the data doesn't get you promoted in academia. Writing papers where you repeatedly mine the hand-crafted-over-20-years dataset does. If you give your
by riahi 11y ago
Sharing the data doesn't get you promoted in academia. Writing papers where you repeatedly mine the hand-crafted-over-20-years dataset does. If you give your dataset away for free, you're destroying your only way to advance in academic medicine.
What we need are alternative funding models for academic medicine. With all the negative press and ethical issues from pharma funding the studies, and the NIH cutting their funding, publish or perish is even more important if you want a sliver of a chance to get some of the remaining grant money.
- jensen123 11y agoSo I guess the concern "that data sharing would require them to commit scarce resources with little direct benefit" is just a pretext then. Obviously, just putting some data up on a website is cheap.
- riahi 11y agoIt is cheap, but how do you measure that? There's no impact factor or associated journal publication. Since simply providing the data can't be measured for tenure or fit into a line item on a CV, academia as a whole assigns it zero value. This then means that simply sharing data is a huge net negative given the high costs of acquiring it.