Table 2 General perception towards open access to data
Responses in per cent: | |||||||||||
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On a scale from 1 to 5; 1= “Strongly disagree”—5= “Agree completely” | Observation | IRR * (%) | Mean | Standard deviation | [95% Conf. interval] | Strongly disagree | 2 | 3 | 4 | Agree completely | |
“Researchers should generally publish their data” | 1491 | 95 | 4.10 | 1.00 | 4.05 | 4.15 | 1.95 | 5.90 | 16.57 | 31.32 | 44.27 |
“I have more disadvantages than advantages when I share my data with others” | 1419 | 91 | 2.32 | 1.16 | 2.26 | 2.38 | 28.61 | 33.19 | 21.35 | 11.49 | 5.36 |
“It deters me from publishing when a journal requires the publication of my data” | 1412 | 90 | 1.94 | 1.14 | 1.88 | 2.00 | 48.30 | 25.71 | 13.95 | 7.86 | 4.18 |
“Openly available research data is a great contribution to scientific progress” | 1449 | 93 | 4.34 | 0.94 | 4.29 | 4.39 | 1.73 | 3.80 | 11.32 | 25.05 | 58.11 |
