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"If your data is high quality and others are using it to find interesting stuff then you are going to get citations and authorship on additional publications wi
by Fomite 3y ago
"If your data is high quality and others are using it to find interesting stuff then you are going to get citations and authorship on additional publications with minimal work..."
This has not been born out in my experience, or the experience of others. Data products are chronically undervalued and undercited in science, and do not come with guarantees of authorship unless you put up barriers to access them without it.
Open data is, at this point, a decision made for either ideological reasons or as a condition of funding and/or publication, not a decision that is itself usually "worth" the investment of curating a public data set.
- noobermin 3y agoThis is the limit to what people do. In my field, even source code sometimes isn't free software. However, if you ask a researcher, they will give you a copy you can freely modify, because the act of asking means they know who you are as a person, and can later ask for citations when you publish. Data is similarly treated. Just putting it out there without any barriers guarantees that other parties will use it without citing you.