The “Enterprise Enterprise project of London” in King’s College London gives students the opportunity to undertake an active research project that works with an external associated organization in the community. Digital science and Figshare They were happy to participate and were delighted to partner with Matthew, Kith and Ria. Matthew is excited to explore the world of data analysis and obtain an understanding of open data benefits. Kith aims to contribute to science in an open and accessible way to help the research community. Ria is interested in the different global policies and is delighted to contribute to advance in scientific research.
Figshare organizes an annual report “Open Data Status (SOOD)” where it aims to provide information about researchers from all over the world with respect to their attitudes to and open data experiences containing 6,091 usable data. For this project, we decided to take the time to deepen the results of the reports to see where the trends were not consistent based on different demographic data.
When analyzing the answers to the questions about the researchers themselves, the compilation and healing of research data, support for research, we begin to note that the data between the 10 main countries showed a divergence consisting of some common names that appear repeatedly. As such, this report is “The global lens: highlighting national nuances in the attitudes of the researchers to open data“
You can begin to see the trends and differences in some of the data that we begin to discover below. When the researchers answered the question about the “Thinking of the country in which you are currently working, how support are you the idea of a national mandate to make the research data more openly?” – In Ethiopia, 48% of researchers strongly favor and 77% support, a national mandate. In the US, 61% support, with the opposite 18%. In Japan, 14% are strongly in favor, and 42% support, but a majority (58%) are neutral or against the opposite 17%.
By creating a visual representation of statistics, a common pattern arose, the contrast between Ethiopia, Japan and the United States in their opinion on open data.
Our team tries to discover the “why” behind the perspectives of several countries on open data. We observe the history of research practices, funds and policies of each country. Explore these factors individually was not enough to obtain a deep understanding. Therefore, using the Digital Sciences Network, we consult experts who have worked or have experience in each country to validate our findings and deepen our ideas about the world of researchers and open data.
About the author
Mark HahnelOpen Vice President of Research | Digital science
Mark Hahnel He is the Vice President of Open Research in Digital Science. He is the founder of Figsharewhich he created when completing his doctorate in stem cell biology at Imperial College London. Figshare currently provides research data infrastructure for institutions, editors and financatives worldwide. He is passionate about open science and the potential it has to revolutionize the research community. Mark is located at the Datacite Board and at the Board of Directors of Open Access Magazines (DOAJ). He was in the Judges Panel of the National Health Institutes (NIH), Wellcome Trust Open Science award and acted as an advisor to Springer Nature’s master classes.
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