How open science helps researchers succeed

By Erin C. McKiernan, Philip E. Bourne, C. T. Brown, Stuart Buck, A. Kenall, Jennifer Lin, Damon McDougall, Brian A. Nosek, Karthik Ram, C. Soderberg and 5 more. eLife, 2016

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Open access, open data, open source and other open scholarship practices are growing in popularity and necessity. However, widespread adoption of these practices has not yet been achieved. One reason is that researchers are uncertain about how sharing their work will affect their careers. We review literature demonstrating that open research is associated with increases in citations, media attention, potential collaborators, job opportunities and funding opportunities. These findings are evidence that open research practices bring significant benefits to researchers relative to more traditional closed practices. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.16800.001

Subfields: Information Systems, Information Systems and Management, Statistics and Probability

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An Agenda for Open Science in Communication (2020, background): “Because from an ethical perspective, the values of open science practices are aligned with our societal function as scientists (Bowman & Keene, 2018; Merton, 1974).”
Systematic integration of biomedical knowledge prioritizes drugs for repurposing (2017, background): “Our goals were to contribute to the advancement of science ( Hrynaszkie-wicz, 2011 ; Molloy, 2011 ), maximize our impact ( McKiernan et al., 2016 ; Piwowar and Vision, 2013 ), and enable reproducibility ( Stodden et al., 2016 ; Stodden and Miguez, 2014 ; Bagg-erly, 2010 ).”
Promoting Open Science to Increase the Trustworthiness of Evidence in Special Education (2018, background): “Studies with shared data are cited more frequently (see Dorch, 2012; Henneken & Accomazzi, 2011; McKiernan et al., 2016; Piwowar, Day, & Fridsma, 2007; Piwowar & Vision, 2013), and research data themselves are a citable contribution to the scholarly record (e.g., Nosek et al., 2015).”
Answers to 18 Questions About Open Science Practices (2018, neutral): “…the generalizability of scientific findings (Ethiraj, Gambardella, & Helfat, 2016), (5) removing pay-walls to increase access to scientific content (McKiernan et al., 2016), and (6) changing incentive systems so that researchers are rewarded for promoting an open science environment (O'Boyle,…”