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So 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 putt

So 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 ago
It 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.