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Populating the Data Ark: An attempt to retrieve, preserve, and liberate data from the most highly-cited psychology and psychiatry articles.
Article in PloS one, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
27 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- The Relationship Between Burnout, Depression, and Anxiety: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Pooled it
- "It makes sense to me": Examining data file column names in the visual cognitive literature.Behavior research methods · 2026Article
- A sharing practices review of the visual search and eye movements literature reveals recommendations for our field and others.Behavior research methods · 2025Review
- How Transparent and Reproducible Are Studies That Use Animal Models of Opioid Addiction?Addiction biology · 2025Article
- How will we prepare for an uncertain future? The value of open data and code for unborn generations facing climate change.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Expanding the data Ark: an attempt to make the data from highly cited social science papers publicly available.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Industry Involvement and Transparency in the Most Cited Clinical Trials, 2019-2022.JAMA network open · 2023Review
- Care to share? Experimental evidence on code sharing behavior in the social sciences.PloS one · 2023Observational
- Examining the generalizability of research findings from archival data.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- A review of reproducible and transparent research practices in urology publications from 2014 to2018.BMC urology · 2022Review
- A meta-review of transparency and reproducibility-related reporting practices in published meta-analyses on clinical psychological interventions (2000-2020).Behavior research methods · 2022Review
- Automated detection of over- and under-dispersion in baseline tables in randomised controlled trials.F1000Research · 2022Article
- Perceptions and Opinions Towards Data-Sharing: A Survey of Addiction Journal Editorial Board Members.The journal of scientific practice and integrity · 2022Article
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- Medical journal requirements for clinical trial data sharing: Ripe for improvement.PLoS medicine · 2021Article
- Estimating the reproducibility of social learning research published between 1955 and 2018.Royal Society open science · 2021Article
- Data sharing practices and data availability upon request differ across scientific disciplines.Scientific data · 2021Article
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- Analytic reproducibility in articles receiving open data badges at the journalRoyal Society open science · 2021Article
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Abstract
The vast majority of scientific articles published to-date have not been accompanied by concomitant publication of the underlying research data upon which they are based. This state of affairs precludes the routine re-use and re-analysis of research data, undermining the efficiency of the scientific enterprise, and compromising the credibility of claims that cannot be independently verified. It may be especially important to make data available for the most influential studies that have provided a foundation for subsequent research and theory development. Therefore, we launched an initiative-the Data Ark-to examine whether we could retrospectively enhance the preservation and accessibility of important scientific data. Here we report the outcome of our efforts to retrieve, preserve, and liberate data from 111 of the most highly-cited articles published in psychology and psychiatry between 2006-2011 (n = 48) and 2014-2016 (n = 63). Most data sets were not made available (76/111, 68%, 95% CI [60, 77]), some were only made available with restrictions (20/111, 18%, 95% CI [10, 27]), and few were made available in a completely unrestricted form (15/111, 14%, 95% CI [5, 22]). Where extant data sharing systems were in place, they usually (17/22, 77%, 95% CI [54, 91]) did not allow unrestricted access. Authors reported several barriers to data sharing, including issues related to data ownership and ethical concerns. The Data Ark initiative could help preserve and liberate important scientific data, surface barriers to data sharing, and advance community discussions on data stewardship.
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