Table 4 Barriers: “I would not share my data …”

From: A reputation economy: how individual reward considerations trump systemic arguments for open access to data

       

Responses in per cent:

On a scale from 1 to 5; 1= “Does not apply at all”5= “Applies completely”

Observation

IRR * (%)

Mean

Standard deviation

[95% Conf. interval]

Strongly disagree

2

3

4

Agree completely

“… if other researchers could use my data to publish before me”

1409

90.09

4.25

1.17

4.19

4.31

5.61

5.75

8.73

18.03

61.89

“… if others could criticize or falsify my work”

1402

89.64

1.99

1.18

1.93

2.05

46.65

25.89

15.05

6.70

5.71

“… if the data could be misinterpreted”

1383

88.43

3.16

1.35

3.08

3.23

15.84

17.43

21.04

26.75

18.94

“… if the data collection required considerable effort”

1392

89.00

2.57

1.26

2.50

2.63

26.51

23.42

24.71

17.53

7.83

“… if a major effort were required to share the data”

1403

89.71

3.55

1.19

3.49

3.61

7.84

11.69

21.53

35.64

23.31

  1. * IRR=item-response-rate