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Prepublication disclosure of scientific results: Norms, competition, and commercial orientation
On the basis of a survey of 7103 active faculty researchers in nine fields, we examine the extent to which scientists disclose prepublication results, and when they do, why? Except in two fields, more scientists disclose results before publication than not, but there is significant variation in thei...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5955623/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29774233 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aar2133 |
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author | Thursby, Jerry G. Haeussler, Carolin Thursby, Marie C. Jiang, Lin |
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description | On the basis of a survey of 7103 active faculty researchers in nine fields, we examine the extent to which scientists disclose prepublication results, and when they do, why? Except in two fields, more scientists disclose results before publication than not, but there is significant variation in their reasons to disclose, in the frequency of such disclosure, and in withholding crucial results when making public presentations. They disclose results for feedback and credit and to attract collaborators. Particularly in formulaic fields, scientists disclose to attract new researchers to the field independent of collaboration and to deter others from working on their exact problem. A probability model shows that 70% of field variation in disclosure is related to differences in respondent beliefs about norms, competition, and commercialization. Our results suggest new research directions—for example, do the problems addressed or the methods of scientific production themselves shape norms and competition? Are the levels we observe optimal or simply path-dependent? What is the interplay of norms, competition, and commercialization in disclosure and the progress of science? |
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spelling | pubmed-59556232018-05-17 Prepublication disclosure of scientific results: Norms, competition, and commercial orientation Thursby, Jerry G. Haeussler, Carolin Thursby, Marie C. Jiang, Lin Sci Adv Research Articles On the basis of a survey of 7103 active faculty researchers in nine fields, we examine the extent to which scientists disclose prepublication results, and when they do, why? Except in two fields, more scientists disclose results before publication than not, but there is significant variation in their reasons to disclose, in the frequency of such disclosure, and in withholding crucial results when making public presentations. They disclose results for feedback and credit and to attract collaborators. Particularly in formulaic fields, scientists disclose to attract new researchers to the field independent of collaboration and to deter others from working on their exact problem. A probability model shows that 70% of field variation in disclosure is related to differences in respondent beliefs about norms, competition, and commercialization. Our results suggest new research directions—for example, do the problems addressed or the methods of scientific production themselves shape norms and competition? Are the levels we observe optimal or simply path-dependent? What is the interplay of norms, competition, and commercialization in disclosure and the progress of science? American Association for the Advancement of Science 2018-05-16 /pmc/articles/PMC5955623/ /pubmed/29774233 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aar2133 Text en Copyright © 2018 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Articles Thursby, Jerry G. Haeussler, Carolin Thursby, Marie C. Jiang, Lin Prepublication disclosure of scientific results: Norms, competition, and commercial orientation |
title | Prepublication disclosure of scientific results: Norms, competition, and commercial orientation |
title_full | Prepublication disclosure of scientific results: Norms, competition, and commercial orientation |
title_fullStr | Prepublication disclosure of scientific results: Norms, competition, and commercial orientation |
title_full_unstemmed | Prepublication disclosure of scientific results: Norms, competition, and commercial orientation |
title_short | Prepublication disclosure of scientific results: Norms, competition, and commercial orientation |
title_sort | prepublication disclosure of scientific results: norms, competition, and commercial orientation |
topic | Research Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5955623/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29774233 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aar2133 |
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