A scientometric study of data sharing literature

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Department of In-formation Science and Knowledge Studies, Zabol University

2 Assistant Professor, Department of In-formation Science and Knowledge Studies, University of Tehran

3 Associate Professor, Department of Information Science and Knowledge Studies, Shahed University

Abstract

Purpose: data sharing is one of the critical drivers of science advancement. ICT and Open Access movement have had a significant role in data sharing. The purpose of this study is analysis of the articles on data sharing indexed in WoS.
Methodology: This research used quantitative approach with scientometric techniques and softwares to analyze data sharing literature.
Findings: Results showed that during recent years, the number of articles on data sharing has increased dramatically. The rate of articles on data sharing shows a considerable increase in three categories of medical sciences, biological sciences and library and information sciences. The United States has produced more than half of the articles. About 27000 authors from 6742 institutions and 140 countries have contributed in publication in the mentioned field and 3500 journals published the articles. These articles were indexed in 231 subject categories. The first 20 subject categories contained more than 90% of the articles.
Conclusion: Due to data sharing functions and benefits in advancing science and attention of scientific communities to this subject and multidisciplinary context of data sharing, it seems that in near future, more and more researchers and scientific communities will tend to research on data sharing, and this will requrie more attention to technical, cultural and structural infrastructures on behalf of data sharing stakeholders.

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