Policies on Sharing Materials and Data of 56 Most Frequently Cited Journals by Publisher and by Content
Percentage of journals | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All journals (N = 56) | Society or Association publishers (N = 37) | Commercial publishers (N = 19) | Life sciences journals (N = 38) | Clinical-medical journals (N = 18) | |||||
| Journals with a policy | 55 | 51 | 58 | 68 | 28 | ||||
| Policy specifies: | |||||||||
| Sharing materials | 39 | 30 | 58 | 47 | 22 | ||||
| Sharing software | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | ||||
| Depositing data | 41 | 35 | 58 | 53 | 17 | ||||
| Statement of consequences | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||||
| Whom to contact | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 6 | ||||
[i] Adapted from the Committee on Responsibilities of Authorship in the Biological Sciences, reprinted with permission from The National Academy of Sciences, courtesy of The National Academies Press © 2003.