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Sharing all types of clinical data and harmonizing journal standards

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medicine, April 2016
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Title
Sharing all types of clinical data and harmonizing journal standards
Published in
BMC Medicine, April 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12916-016-0612-8
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Authors

Corrado Barbui

Abstract

Despite recent efforts to enforce policies requiring the sharing of data underlying clinical findings, current policies of biomedical journals remain largely heterogeneous. As this heterogeneity does not optimally serve the cause of data sharing, a first step towards better harmonization would be the requirement of a data sharing statement for all clinical studies and not simply for randomized studies. Although the publication of a data sharing statement does not imply that all data is made readily available, such a policy would swiftly implement a cultural change in the definition of scientific outputs. Currently, a scientific output only corresponds to a study report published in a medical journal, while in the near future it might consist of all materials described in the manuscript, including all relevant raw data. When such a cultural shift has been achieved, the logical conclusion would be for biomedical journals to require authors to make all data fully available without restriction as a condition for publication.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 1 3%
Germany 1 3%
Unknown 27 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 6 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 17%
Researcher 4 14%
Student > Master 3 10%
Professor 2 7%
Other 5 17%
Unknown 4 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 9 31%
Computer Science 3 10%
Arts and Humanities 1 3%
Environmental Science 1 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 3%
Other 7 24%
Unknown 7 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 83. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 November 2016.
All research outputs
#509,057
of 25,235,161 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#385
of 3,957 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#9,319
of 307,235 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#3
of 47 outputs
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