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Attitudes and practices of open data, preprinting, and peer-review—A cross sectional study on Croatian scientists
Attitudes towards open peer review, open data and use of preprints influence scientists’ engagement with those practices. Yet there is a lack of validated questionnaires that measure these attitudes. The goal of our study was to construct and validate such a questionnaire and use it to assess attitu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8216536/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34153041 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244529 |
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author | Baždarić, Ksenija Vrkić, Iva Arh, Evgenia Mavrinac, Martina Gligora Marković, Maja Bilić-Zulle, Lidija Stojanovski, Jadranka Malički, Mario |
author_facet | Baždarić, Ksenija Vrkić, Iva Arh, Evgenia Mavrinac, Martina Gligora Marković, Maja Bilić-Zulle, Lidija Stojanovski, Jadranka Malički, Mario |
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description | Attitudes towards open peer review, open data and use of preprints influence scientists’ engagement with those practices. Yet there is a lack of validated questionnaires that measure these attitudes. The goal of our study was to construct and validate such a questionnaire and use it to assess attitudes of Croatian scientists. We first developed a 21-item questionnaire called Attitudes towards Open data sharing, preprinting, and peer-review (ATOPP), which had a reliable four-factor structure, and measured attitudes towards open data, preprint servers, open peer-review and open peer-review in small scientific communities. We then used the ATOPP to explore attitudes of Croatian scientists (n = 541) towards these topics, and to assess the association of their attitudes with their open science practices and demographic information. Overall, Croatian scientists’ attitudes towards these topics were generally neutral, with a median (Md) score of 3.3 out of max 5 on the scale score. We also found no gender (P = 0.995) or field differences (P = 0.523) in their attitudes. However, attitudes of scientist who previously engaged in open peer-review or preprinting were higher than of scientists that did not (Md 3.5 vs. 3.3, P<0.001, and Md 3.6 vs 3.3, P<0.001, respectively). Further research is needed to determine optimal ways of increasing scientists’ attitudes and their open science practices. |
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spelling | pubmed-82165362021-07-01 Attitudes and practices of open data, preprinting, and peer-review—A cross sectional study on Croatian scientists Baždarić, Ksenija Vrkić, Iva Arh, Evgenia Mavrinac, Martina Gligora Marković, Maja Bilić-Zulle, Lidija Stojanovski, Jadranka Malički, Mario PLoS One Research Article Attitudes towards open peer review, open data and use of preprints influence scientists’ engagement with those practices. Yet there is a lack of validated questionnaires that measure these attitudes. The goal of our study was to construct and validate such a questionnaire and use it to assess attitudes of Croatian scientists. We first developed a 21-item questionnaire called Attitudes towards Open data sharing, preprinting, and peer-review (ATOPP), which had a reliable four-factor structure, and measured attitudes towards open data, preprint servers, open peer-review and open peer-review in small scientific communities. We then used the ATOPP to explore attitudes of Croatian scientists (n = 541) towards these topics, and to assess the association of their attitudes with their open science practices and demographic information. Overall, Croatian scientists’ attitudes towards these topics were generally neutral, with a median (Md) score of 3.3 out of max 5 on the scale score. We also found no gender (P = 0.995) or field differences (P = 0.523) in their attitudes. However, attitudes of scientist who previously engaged in open peer-review or preprinting were higher than of scientists that did not (Md 3.5 vs. 3.3, P<0.001, and Md 3.6 vs 3.3, P<0.001, respectively). Further research is needed to determine optimal ways of increasing scientists’ attitudes and their open science practices. Public Library of Science 2021-06-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8216536/ /pubmed/34153041 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244529 Text en © 2021 Baždarić et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Baždarić, Ksenija Vrkić, Iva Arh, Evgenia Mavrinac, Martina Gligora Marković, Maja Bilić-Zulle, Lidija Stojanovski, Jadranka Malički, Mario Attitudes and practices of open data, preprinting, and peer-review—A cross sectional study on Croatian scientists |
title | Attitudes and practices of open data, preprinting, and peer-review—A cross sectional study on Croatian scientists |
title_full | Attitudes and practices of open data, preprinting, and peer-review—A cross sectional study on Croatian scientists |
title_fullStr | Attitudes and practices of open data, preprinting, and peer-review—A cross sectional study on Croatian scientists |
title_full_unstemmed | Attitudes and practices of open data, preprinting, and peer-review—A cross sectional study on Croatian scientists |
title_short | Attitudes and practices of open data, preprinting, and peer-review—A cross sectional study on Croatian scientists |
title_sort | attitudes and practices of open data, preprinting, and peer-review—a cross sectional study on croatian scientists |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8216536/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34153041 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244529 |
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