Title |
Sharing all types of clinical data and harmonizing journal standards
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Published in |
BMC Medicine, April 2016
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DOI | 10.1186/s12916-016-0612-8 |
Pubmed ID | |
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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United Kingdom | 28 | 24% |
United States | 24 | 21% |
France | 8 | 7% |
Germany | 5 | 4% |
Canada | 3 | 3% |
Spain | 2 | 2% |
Egypt | 1 | <1% |
Korea, Republic of | 1 | <1% |
Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
Other | 6 | 5% |
Unknown | 38 | 32% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 70 | 60% |
Scientists | 33 | 28% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 8 | 7% |
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 6 | 5% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
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Spain | 1 | 3% |
Germany | 1 | 3% |
Unknown | 27 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
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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 % |
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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% |