archaeology data; data sharing; scholarly communication and publishing (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Beth Sheehan.

Journal publishers are poised to influence and be influenced by disciplinary attitudes toward data sharing. A previous study of the relative strength or weakness of data sharing policies in journals that publish gene microarray expression data (Piwowar and Chapman, 2008) found that stronger data sharing policies are generally associated with higher journal impact factors and an increased percentage of articles with shared and available data. In fact, even the presence of a "weak" policy...