The future of clinical trials: data sharing

Sharing data: Some examples

“…Data sharing is by no means accepted, universal, or easy across scientific fields; psychology and the biomedical sciences are (occasionally egregious) exemplars. For example, a recent controversy in the New England Journal of Medicine arose when two authors referred to users of data collected by others as ‘research parasites’ (Drazen, 2016; Longo and Drazen, 2016) and were subsequently hammered by several critics (Berger et al., 2016; Emmert-Streib et al., 2016; Fecher and Wagner, 2016a; Fecher and Wagner, 2016b; Greene et al., 2017; Hirsch, 2017). One of the big issues was whether primary investigators could demand that subsequent users of data be obliged to work and publish only in collaboration with them.…”