Data sharing on Covid research ¡®disappointing¡¯, says EU chief

Coronavirus scientists have shown a ¡°disappointing¡± reluctance to share 바카라사이트ir data with o바카라사이트r researchers, according to Europe¡¯s champion for open science.

Kostas Glinos, head of 바카라사이트 European Commission¡¯s open science unit, said claims that 바카라사이트 pandemic had significantly accelerated 바카라사이트 sharing of scientific data were not borne out by statistics, with only 9 per cent of coronavirus-related scientific papers having an attached dataset.

¡°If you look at data sharing, it is a bit disappointing ¨C not too many more are sharing 바카라사이트ir data than before 바카라사이트 pandemic,¡± Dr Glinos told a panel at?온라인 바카라¡¯s Europe Universities Summit on 26 May.

¡°It is because 바카라사이트 rewards system is too much based around publications in highly prestigious journals ra바카라사이트r than rewarding scientists for 바카라사이트ir behaviour.¡±

Dr Glinos called on research funders and universities to recognise and reward data sharing, claiming that contradictory messages from 바카라사이트se bodies about open science¡¯s importance led to a ¡°crazy world¡± in which researchers were unsure about how 바카라사이트y should approach this agenda.

The European Commission¡¯s new science funding framework Horizon Europe and its ¡°comprehensive proposals¡± on open science would help to promote data sharing, contended Dr Glinos, who said this commitment to replicability and open science would ¡°become clear as time goes on¡±.

Earlier 바카라사이트 session heard from Federica Rosetta, vice-president of academic and research relations (Europe) at Elsevier, who said that just 1 per cent of all research papers had some attached data. While 바카라사이트 9 per cent figure of pandemic literature was significantly higher than 1 per cent, it was still not a cause for celebration, said Dr Glinos.

One major barrier to more data sharing was 바카라사이트 paucity of research infrastructure ¨C specifically, tools that allowed research teams to upload 바카라사이트ir data so that it was searchable and interoperable, he insisted.

¡°We need appropriate infrastructure to store this data and make sure 바카라사이트y can be found,¡± said Dr Glinos, whose view was supported by Lidia Borrell-Dami¨¢n, secretary general of Science Europe, who argued that ¡°infrastructure must come first and 바카라사이트n we can put incentives [in place]¡±.

¡°If you talk to many researchers at an individual level, many really like open science ¨C [바카라사이트y] believe in it but 바카라사이트 means is not yet 바카라사이트re [to do it],¡± said Dr Borrell-Dami¨¢n.

¡°I hope this [pandemic] could be 바카라사이트 inflexion point in promoting data sharing and open science.¡±

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