The sharing of research data facing the COVID-19 pandemic

During the previous Ebola and Zika outbreaks, researchers shared their data, allowing many published epidemiological studies to be produced only from open research data, to speed up investigations and control of these infections. This study aims to evaluate the dissemination of the COVID-19 research data underlying scientific publications. Analysis of COVID-19 publications from December 1, 2019, to April 30, 2020, was conducted through the PubMed Central repository to evaluate the research data available through its publication as supplementary material or deposited in repositories. The PubMed Central search generated 5,905 records, of which 804 papers included complementary research data, especially as supplementary material (77.4%). The most productive journals were The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and The Lancet Infectious Diseases, the most frequent keyword was pneumonia, and the most used repositories were GitHub and GenBank. An expected growth in the number of published articles following the course of the pandemics is confirmed in this work, while the underlying research data are only 13.6%. It can be deduced that data sharing is not a common practice, even in health emergencies, such as the present one. High-impact generalist journals have accounted for a large share of global publishing. The topics most often covered are related to epidemiological and public health concepts, genetics, virology and respiratory diseases, such as pneumonia. However, it is essential to interpret these data with caution following the evolution of publications and their funding in the coming months.This work benefited from assistance by Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (PID2019-105708RB-C22, PID2019-108579RB-I00 and BES-2016–079394) and the CIBERONC (CB16/12/00350).Peer reviewe

The Emergency Medicine Facing the Challenge of Open Science

BACKGROUND: The availability of research datasets can strengthen and facilitate research processes. This is specifically relevant in the emergency medicine field due to the importance of providing immediate care in critical situations as the very current Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic is showing to the scientific community. This work aims to show which Emergency Medicine journals indexed in Journal Citation Reports (JCR) currently meet data sharing criteria. METHODS: This study analyzes the editorial policies regarding the data deposit of the journals in the emergency medicine category of the JCR and evaluates the Supplementary material of the articles published in these journals that have been deposited in the PubMed Central repository. RESULTS: It has been observed that 19 out of the 24 journals contained in the emergency medicine category of Journal Citation Reports are also located in PubMed Central (PMC), yielding a total of 5983 articles. Out of these, only 9.4% of the articles contain supplemental material. Although second quartile journals of JCR emergency medicine category have quantitatively more articles in PMC, the main journals involved in the deposit of supplemental material belong to the first quartile, of which the most used format in the articles is pdf, followed by text documents. CONCLUSION: This study reveals that data sharing remains an incipient practice in the emergency medicine field, as there are still barriers between researchers to participate in data sharing. Therefore, it is necessary to promote dynamics to improve this practice both qualitatively (the quality and format of datasets) and quantitatively (the quantity of datasets in absolute terms) in research

The sharing of research data in the cell & Tissue engineering area: Is it a common practice?

The availability of research data sets is an important milestone because it can enhance the dynamics of research. This study aims to analyze the PubMed Central repository to determine the availability and type of raw data sets in Cell & Tissue Engineering journals indexed in Journal Citation Reports. The number and types of files were registered. The main finding of this study is that, beyond the mandatory deposit of data in specific repositories that some journals require, the exchange of data as supplementary material in the Cell & Tissue Engineering journals is not a common practice since researchers are still reticent to do so

Is Sharing Datasets the Answer to the New Challenges of Reproductive Biology Research?

© The Author(s) 2021.Data sharing increases the speed of research and saves time and resources while ensuring transparency and reproducibility. We have analyzed this behavior through the reproductive biology community. Our study revealed that Q1 (44%) and Q2 (36%) JCR reproductive biology journals are the most active journals in data sharing.This work benefited from assistance by Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (PID2019-105708RB-C22, PID2019-108579RB-I00 and BES-2016-079394) and the CIBERONC (CB16/12/00350)

The availability of raw data in substance abuse scientific journals

[Objective]: The availability of research data sets is an important milestone since it can enhance the dynamics of research. This study aims to analyse the PubMed Central repository to determine the availability and type of raw data sets in Substance Abuse journals indexed in the Journal Citation Reports.[Methods]: A search of the 39 journals from the Substance Abuse category of both editions (Sciences and Social Sciences) of the 2014 Journal Citation Reports was conducted. A study of the supplementary material of the original articles was performed through a search in the PubMed Central repository. The number and types of files were registered.[Results]: The search in PubMed Central showed that only 4.7% of original articles contained supplementary material uploaded, being text and .pdf files the most frequent materials whereas spreadsheets and raw data represent less than 10%.[Conclusion]: The main finding of this study is that the exchange of data in the substance abuse field is not a common practice since researchers are still reticent.This work was supported by the 2015-Networks of Excellence Call [CSO2015-71867-REDT];National R+D+I of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of the Spanish Government [CSO2012-39632-C02-01 and CSO2015-65594-C2-2-R]

El uso compartido de datos a través de ficheros xls, xlsx y csv en el ámbito de las adicciones: una práctica que mejora y acelera la investigación científica.

Trabajo presentado en el I Congreso Internacional y XLVI Jornadas Nacionales de Socidrogalcohol, celebradas en Málaga (España) del 7 al 9 de marzo de 2019

Scientific communication (XXX). How to elaborate a research protocol on health sciences

[EN]: Research is a systematic process which can be conducted through four phases: conceptual, empirical, interpretative and communícative. A research protocol is the document that allows going from the conception of a research problem to the research in itself. It starts in the conceptual stage and its finalization coincides with the beginning of the empirical stage. Its purpose is to communicate in detail, reliability and clarity every aspect related to the suggested study in order to evaluate it subsequently by the proper research body. This paper describes the structure, sections and elaboration of a research protocol and it is pretended to be used as a guide for the Pediatrics professionals interested in planning and conducting a scientific research.[ES]: La investigación es un proceso sistemático que se lleva a cabo en cuatro grandes etapas: conceptual, empírica, interpretativa y comunicativa. El protocolo de investigación es el documento que nos permite pasar de la concepción de un problema de investigación a su puesta en marcha, por lo que se enmarca en la etapa conceptual de la investigación y su finalización coincide con el inicio de la etapa empírica o práctica. Su función es comunicar con el máximo detalle, precisión y claridad todos los aspectos relacionados con el estudio que se plantea, para su posterior evaluación por parte del organismo de investigación competente. Este artículo, en el que se describe cuál es la estructura de un protocolo, qué apartados lo componen y cómo debe elaborarse, pretende servir de guía orientativa para todos los profesionales de pediatría interesados en planificar y realizar una investigación científica.Peer Reviewe

Scientific communication (XXXI). How to elaborate a doctoral dissertation

[EN]: Despite of its consideration as grey literature, a doctoral dissertation is the deepest scientific work about a topic and it allows obtaining the highest academic degree, Philosophiæ doctor (PhD). Due to its importance, this paper will show some advices and suggestions about the proceduret to produce a doctoral dissertation. [ES]: Pese a ser considerara literatura gris, una tesis doctoral es el trabajo científico más profundo que se puede realizar sobre un tema y permite alcanzar el mayor grado académico posible, el de doctor. Dada su importancia, el presente artículo tratará de mostrar algunas indicaciones y sugerencias sobre el procedimiento de elaboración de una tesis doctoral.Peer Reviewe

Hacia un modelo de evaluación de las políticas editoriales sobre uso compartido de datos de investigación en revistas de Ciencias Sociales.

Trabajo presentado en la 9ª Conferencia internacional sobre revistas de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, celebrada en Logroño (La Rioja) el día 23 y 24 de mayo de 2019