TY - GEN
T1 - Dead Science
T2 - 14th International Conference on Information in Contemporary Society, iConference 2019
AU - Zeng, Tong
AU - Shema, Alain
AU - Acuna, Daniel E.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Scientific progress critically depends on disseminating analytic pipelines and datasets that make results reproducible and replicable. Increasingly, researchers make resources available for wider reuse and embed links to them in their published manuscripts. Previous research has shown that these resources become unavailable over time but the extent and causes of this problem in open access publications has not been explored well. By using 1.9 million articles from PubMed Open Access, we estimate that half of all resources become unavailable after 8 years. We find that the number of times a resource has been used, the international (int) and organization (org) domain suffixes, and the number of affiliations are positively related to resources being available. In contrast, we found that the length of the URL, Indian (in), European Union (eu), and Chinese (cn) domain suffixes, and abstract length are negatively related to resources being available. Our results contribute to our understanding of resource sharing in science and provide some guidance to solve resource decay.
AB - Scientific progress critically depends on disseminating analytic pipelines and datasets that make results reproducible and replicable. Increasingly, researchers make resources available for wider reuse and embed links to them in their published manuscripts. Previous research has shown that these resources become unavailable over time but the extent and causes of this problem in open access publications has not been explored well. By using 1.9 million articles from PubMed Open Access, we estimate that half of all resources become unavailable after 8 years. We find that the number of times a resource has been used, the international (int) and organization (org) domain suffixes, and the number of affiliations are positively related to resources being available. In contrast, we found that the length of the URL, Indian (in), European Union (eu), and Chinese (cn) domain suffixes, and abstract length are negatively related to resources being available. Our results contribute to our understanding of resource sharing in science and provide some guidance to solve resource decay.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-15742-5_16
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-15742-5_16
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85064046509
SN - 9783030157418
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 170
EP - 176
BT - Information in Contemporary Society - 14th International Conference, iConference 2019, Proceedings
A2 - Christian-Lamb, Caitlin
A2 - Taylor, Natalie Greene
A2 - Martin, Michelle H.
A2 - Nardi, Bonnie
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 31 March 2019 through 3 April 2019
ER -