The Influence of Journal Publishers on Archaeology Data Sharing

Summary

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 increased data sharing, as compared to journals with no data sharing policy. This poster presents the summarized findings of a similar review conducted in 2017 that examines the presence/absence and relative strength of data sharing directives from the top 50 archaeology journals (as ranked by the 2016 Scimago Journal Rank indicator scores). The results reveal a snapshot of the current state of the archaeology discipline’s data sharing attitudes as reflected in the culture of archaeology publishing and scholarly communication, and inspire discussion about the potential benefits and drawbacks of publisher-encouraged or mandated data sharing in this discipline.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Abstract Id(s): 22337