What is it about?
One can debate a long time on costs and benefits of research data sharing. These can also be calculated, however. This paper makes explicit the costs and the benefits. It turns out that research data sharing is profitable, if everyone does it.
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Why is it important?
The calculations provide insight in the determinants of sharing, i.e. incentives for the individual researchers that do the sharing, how to increase benefits, how to lower costs of sharing.
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This page is a summary of: A game theoretic analysis of research data sharing, PeerJ, September 2015, PeerJ,
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1242.
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Resources
Presentation: A game theoretic analysis of research data sharing
The presentation highlights the findings in the paper and provides a visualisation of the model and its assumptions.
Blog on the paper
Summary of the paper based on the pre-print, by Margarita Kolchagova at DNAdigest.
Blog on the paper
Summary of the paper by me, with strip cartoon explanation of the 'unstable' optimum in research data sharing.
Replication dataset
Scripts to reproduce the figures in the paper. The scripts can also be used to make new figures at different parameter settings.
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