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Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence 12/2017

13-09-2017 | Editorial

Data Sharing Mandates, Developmental Science, and Responsibly Supporting Authors

Auteur: Roger J. R. Levesque

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Uitgave 12/2017

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Abstract

Data sharing has come of age. Long expected as a professional courtesy but rarely honored, data sharing is now highlighted in codes of ethics, supported by research communities, required by leading funding organizations, and variously encouraged and mandated by journals and even publishers. These developments reveal how sharing generates many benefits, all of which go to the integrity of the scientific process. Yet, sharing remains a complex phenomenon. This Editorial explains the journal’s response to the publisher’s mandate to establish an appropriate data sharing policy for the Journal of Youth and Adolescence. It describes the need to balance the benefits of sharing with its costs for authors publishing in multidisciplinary, developmental science journals like this one. For this journal and at this time, that balance leads us to err on the side of caution, which means supporting those who created their data and not coercing public sharing as a condition for publishing. This approach recognizes authors’ reliance on a wide variety of data, the needs of differentially situated authors, the requirements of robust peer review, and the potential harms that can come from editors’ unilateral sharing mandates.
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Many factors counsel against compelling authors to share their data and raise the duty to protect authors’ interests. As of now, our field has not matured in ways similar to others that mandate sharing, such as fields of study that require very costly data collection or have exceedingly rare data that compel sharing. By and large, the studies published in our journal are not the type that participants would suffer if their data were not shared; and there also tends not to be public emergencies that mandate sharing and no excessive innovations that would limit other similarly situated researchers from obtaining their own data. In addition, some types of data may not be readily shared. While some sources of funding require researchers to plan for data sharing, some authors may not have access to such support. Basic fairness issues also ask whether it is fair to require some authors to share when others are not required to do so. Those same fairness concerns are grounds to question whether it is responsible to require some authors to bear the cost of preparing data for sharing when they lack needed support. Our field remains diverse in its data sources, a diversity that overly restrictive policies run the risk of stifling.
 
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Editors evaluate manuscripts in light of several considerations unknown to authors. Editors must consider not only the quality of submitted manuscripts but also the capabilities of their review process, impressions of the scholarly field’s needs, subjective evaluations of the public’s interest in the science, future and past manuscripts on specific topics or using specific analyses, and parameters expressed by the publisher. Publishers likely have more influence than most authors realize. Fortunately for this journal, however, the publisher’s staff has been exceedingly supportive and has been at the forefront of advancing how our field publishes and what it publishes.
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
Data Sharing Mandates, Developmental Science, and Responsibly Supporting Authors
Auteur
Roger J. R. Levesque
Publicatiedatum
13-09-2017
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Journal of Youth and Adolescence / Uitgave 12/2017
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-017-0741-1

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