Making Data Sharing Count: A Publication-Based Solution
Open Access
- 1 January 2013
- journal article
- Published by Frontiers Media SA in Frontiers in Neuroscience
Abstract
The neuroimaging community has been increasingly called up to openly share data. Although data sharing has been a cornerstone of large-scale data consortia, the incentive for the individual researcher remains unclear. Other fields have benefited from embracing a data publication form – the data paper – that allows researchers to publish their datasets as a citable scientific publication. Such publishing mechanisms both give credit that is recognizable within the scientific ecosystem, and also ensure the quality of the published data and metadata through the peer review process. We discuss the specific challenges of adapting data papers to the needs of the neuroimaging community, and we propose guidelines for the structure as well as review process.This publication has 30 references indexed in Scilit:
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