ArticleBiodiversity data journal2019
A deafening silence: a lack of data and reproducibility in published bioacoustics research?
Article in Biodiversity data journal, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Listening forward: emerging roles of bioacoustics in ecology, evolution, and conservation.Biologia futura · 2026Review
- Leveraging artificial intelligence in bioacoustics for animal health monitoring and early diagnosis in veterinary medicine.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2026Review
- A deep learning pipeline for age prediction from vocalisations of the domestic feline.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Audio tagging of avian dawn chorus recordings in California, Oregon and Washington.Biodiversity data journal · 2024Article
- A dataset for benchmarking Neotropical anuran calls identification in passive acoustic monitoring.Scientific data · 2023Article
- NEAL: an open-source tool for audio annotation.PeerJ · 2023Article
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- Bioacoustic classification of avian calls from raw sound waveforms with an open-source deep learning architecture.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Standardisation of bioacoustic terminology for insects.Biodiversity data journal · 2020Article
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Abstract
A study of 100 papers from five journals that make use of bioacoustic recordings shows that only a minority (21%) deposit any of the recordings in a repository, supplementary materials section or a personal website. This lack of deposition hinders re-use of the raw data by other researchers, prevents the reproduction of a project's analyses and confirmation of its findings and impedes progress within the broader bioacoustics community. We make some recommendations for researchers interested in depositing their data.
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