[OWW-SC] Fwd: [PLoSONE Advisory Board] PLoS ONE papers scheduled for 14th March

[Drew Endy]

Folks,

Chris Surridge at PLoS One has an interesting article coming out that  
I thought might be of sufficient interest to some or all of us that  
we may be willing to provide some comments on it (for the PLoS One  
website (we could even do this somehow via a coupling to OWW).

Here's the abstract.  Please send me an email if you want the full  
PDF ahead of its release and might be interested in jotting your  
thoughts down for comments (good, bad, or suggestive) online...

Sharing Detailed Research Data Is Associated with Increased Citation  
Rate
Heather A. Piwowar*, Roger S. Day, Douglas B. Fridsma
Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School  
of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Background. Sharing research data provides benefit to the general  
scientific community, but the benefit is less obvious for
the investigator who makes his or her data available. Principal  
Findings. We examined the citation history of 85 cancer
microarray clinical trial publications with respect to the  
availability of their data. The 48% of trials with publicly available
microarray data received 85% of the aggregate citations. Publicly  
available data was significantly (p = 0.006) associated with
a 69% increase in citations, independently of journal impact factor,  
date of publication, and author country of origin using
linear regression. Significance. This correlation between publicly  
available data and increased literature impact may further
motivate investigators to share their detailed research data.

Thanks,
Drew


Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Chris Surridge" <csurridge at plos.org>
> Date: March 15, 2007 6:36:06 AM EDT
> To: "Drew Endy" <endy at MIT.EDU>
> Subject: RE: [PLoSONE Advisory Board] PLoS ONE papers scheduled for  
> 14th March
>
> Drew,
>
> Thanks. Anything I can do to cement ties with OWW is great. This  
> one is
> published on the 21st March.
>
>
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Drew Endy [mailto:endy at MIT.EDU]
> Sent: 10 March 2007 19:27
> To: Chris Surridge
> Subject: Re: [PLoSONE Advisory Board] PLoS ONE papers scheduled for  
> 14th
> March
>
> Chris,
>
> Can you send me this article (below).  The folks behind OWW would
> likely be very interested in providing detailed comments.
>
> Thanks / hope that you are great.
> Drew
>
>
> On Mar 8, 2007, at 10:00 AM, Chris Surridge wrote:
>
>> Sharing Detailed Research Data Is Associated with Increased
>> Citation Rate
>>
>> Piwowar
>>
>> 10.1371/journal.pone.0000308
>