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Sharing data and data availability statements
Data availability statements: a little credit, but not much
BMJ 2023; 380 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o3047 (Published 06 January 2023) Cite this as: BMJ 2023;380:o3047
- Stephen H Bradley, GP and NIHR academic clinical lecturer
- Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
- medsbra{at}leeds.ac.uk
Loder is right that “among the failures, credit is due” but perhaps gives a little too much credit to journals that require authors to fill out data availability statements.1 Loder points to evidence from systematic reviews showing that publications in journals that mandate data sharing or inclusion of data availability statements were more likely to share data (16 of 87; 18%) than those without mandates (4 of 213; …
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