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A game theoretic analysis of research data sharing
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Pronk TE
; Wiersma PH
; van Weerden A
; Schieving F
PeerJ
2015[]; 3
(ä): e1242
PMID26401453
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While reusing research data has evident benefits for the scientific community as
a whole, decisions to archive and share these data are primarily made by
individual researchers. In this paper we analyse, within a game theoretical
framework, how sharing and reuse of research data affect individuals who share or
do not share their datasets. We construct a model in which there is a cost
associated with sharing datasets whereas reusing such sets implies a benefit. In
our calculations, conflicting interests appear for researchers. Individual
researchers are always better off not sharing and omitting the sharing cost, at
the same time both sharing and not sharing researchers are better off if (almost)
all researchers share. Namely, the more researchers share, the more benefit can
be gained by the reuse of those datasets. We simulated several policy measures to
increase benefits for researchers sharing or reusing datasets. Results point out
that, although policies should be able to increase the rate of sharing
researchers, and increased discoverability and dataset quality could partly
compensate for costs, a better measure would be to directly lower the cost for
sharing, or even turn it into a (citation-) benefit. Making data available would
in that case become the most profitable, and therefore stable, strategy. This
means researchers would willingly make their datasets available, and arguably in
the best possible way to enable reuse.