Reviewers – how to advocate for Open
If you review for journals (or other such publications) you have an opportunity to advocate for Open Research. Below are two paragraphs from Krzysztof Cipora (Open Research Lead for School of Science), which you can remix as you want:
To increase transparency of science and visibility of your work, I encourage you to consider sharing your materials, data, and analysis code with the community (e.g., on Open Science Framework). See http://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.158 for thorough guidelines. Note that papers, in case of which data was shared, seem to have some citation advantage https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230416. At the same time, the empirical evidence shows, that declaring that sharing data “upon a (reasonable) request” is not a sustainable way for the science to go forward (www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1708290115).
If you cannot share the data due to confidentially issues, you might wish to consider sharing a synthetic dataset https://elifesciences.org/articles/53275. Furthermore, you still can share your materials and code. Please note that this is just a suggestion, and I do not condition my recommendation on whether you do it. For your obligations in that context please consult journal’s editorial policy.
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