Reproducible and reusable research: Are journal data sharing policies meeting the mark?

PeerJ

Volumn 2017, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Vasilevsky, Nicole A ^a   Minnier, Jessica ^b   Haendel, Melissa A ^a   Champieux, Robin E ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Oregon Health Science University School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Data management; Data sharing; Open data; Reproducibility; Scholarly communication; Scientific communication

Indexed keywords

JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; LICENSING; MODEL; PUBLISHING; REPRODUCIBILITY;

EID: 85018538069     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3208     Document Type: Article

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