Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate.

BACKGROUND:Sharing research data provides benefit to the general scientific community, but the benefit is less obvious for the investigator who makes his or her data available. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS:We examined the citation history of 85 cancer microarray clinical trial publications with respect to the...

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Main Authors: Heather A Piwowar, Roger S Day, Douglas B Fridsma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-03-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1817752?pdf=render