ArticleNature ecology & evolution2022
No evidence that mandatory open data policies increase error correction.
Article in Nature ecology & evolution, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed.
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- The academic impact of Open Science: a scoping review.Royal Society open science · 2025Review
- 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
- Supporting study registration to reduce research waste.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Review
- Best practices for genetic and genomic data archiving.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Review
- A dataset without a code book: ethnography and open science.Frontiers in sociology · 2024Review
- Recognizing and marshalling the pre-publication error correction potential of open data for more reproducible science.Nature ecology & evolution · 2023Article
- Reply to: Recognizing and marshalling the pre-publication error correction potential of open data for more reproducible science.Nature ecology & evolution · 2023Article
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Abstract
Using a database of open data policies for 199 journals in ecology and evolution, we found no detectable link between data sharing requirements and article retractions or corrections. Despite the potential for open data to facilitate error detection, poorly archived datasets, the absence of open code and the stigma associated with correcting or retracting articles probably stymie error correction. Requiring code alongside data and destigmatizing error correction among authors and journal editors could increase the effectiveness of open data policies at helping science self-correct.
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