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ArticleBioscience2021

Provoking a Cultural Shift in Data Quality.

Sarah E McCord, Nicholas P Webb, Justin W Van Zee, Sarah H Burnett, Erica M Christensen, Ericha M Courtright, Christine M Laney, Claire Lunch, Connie Maxwell, Jason W Karl and 3 more

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Article in Bioscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Understanding Organisms Using Ecological Observatory Networks.Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Sarah E McCordUS Department of Agriculture ARS Jornada Experimental Range, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4755-2625
Nicholas P WebbUS Department of Agriculture ARS Jornada Experimental Range, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9355-5512
Justin W Van ZeeUS Department of Agriculture ARS Jornada Experimental Range, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0664-5662
Sarah H BurnettBureau of Land Management, National Operations Center, Denver, Colorado, United States.
Erica M ChristensenUS Department of Agriculture ARS Jornada Experimental Range, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5635-2502
Ericha M CourtrightUS Department of Agriculture ARS Jornada Experimental Range, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2181-4543
Christine M LaneyBattelle-National Ecological Observatory Network, Boulder, Colorado, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4944-2083
Claire LunchUS Department of Agriculture ARS Jornada Experimental Range, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8753-6593
Connie MaxwellNew Mexico State University, in Las Cruces, New Mexico,United States.
Jason W KarlDepartment of Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3326-3806
Amalia SlaughterUS Department of Agriculture ARS Jornada Experimental Range, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States.
Nelson G StaufferUS Department of Agriculture ARS Jornada Experimental Range, Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States.
Craig TweedieUniversity of Texas-El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3409-8881

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ecological studies require quality data to describe the nature of ecological processes and to advance understanding of ecosystem change. Increasing access to big data has magnified both the burden and the complexity of ensuring quality data. The costs of errors in ecology include low use of data, increased time spent cleaning data, and poor reproducibility that can result in a misunderstanding of ecosystem processes and dynamics, all of which can erode the efficacy of and trust in ecological research. Although conceptual and technological advances have improved ecological data access and management, a cultural shift is needed to embed data quality as a cultural practice. We present a comprehensive data quality framework to evoke this cultural shift. The data quality framework flexibly supports different collaboration models, supports all types of ecological data, and can be used to describe data quality within both short- and long-term ecological studies.

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big datadatadata qualityecoinformaticsquality assurancequality control

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PMID34084097
PMCPMC8169311

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