Article ; Online: Attitudes and practices of open data, preprinting, and peer-review-A cross sectional study on Croatian scientists.
PloS one
2021 Volume 16, Issue 6, Page(s) e0244529
Abstract: Attitudes towards open peer review, open data and use of preprints influence scientists' engagement with those practices. Yet there is a lack of validated questionnaires that measure these attitudes. The goal of our study was to construct and validate ... ...
| Abstract | Attitudes towards open peer review, open data and use of preprints influence scientists' engagement with those practices. Yet there is a lack of validated questionnaires that measure these attitudes. The goal of our study was to construct and validate such a questionnaire and use it to assess attitudes of Croatian scientists. We first developed a 21-item questionnaire called Attitudes towards Open data sharing, preprinting, and peer-review (ATOPP), which had a reliable four-factor structure, and measured attitudes towards open data, preprint servers, open peer-review and open peer-review in small scientific communities. We then used the ATOPP to explore attitudes of Croatian scientists (n = 541) towards these topics, and to assess the association of their attitudes with their open science practices and demographic information. Overall, Croatian scientists' attitudes towards these topics were generally neutral, with a median (Md) score of 3.3 out of max 5 on the scale score. We also found no gender (P = 0.995) or field differences (P = 0.523) in their attitudes. However, attitudes of scientist who previously engaged in open peer-review or preprinting were higher than of scientists that did not (Md 3.5 vs. 3.3, P<0.001, and Md 3.6 vs 3.3, P<0.001, respectively). Further research is needed to determine optimal ways of increasing scientists' attitudes and their open science practices. |
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| MeSH term(s) | Adult ; Aged ; Attitude ; Croatia ; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Faculty ; Female ; Humans ; Information Dissemination/methods ; Laboratory Personnel ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Peer Review, Research/methods ; Peer Review, Research/trends ; Physicians ; Preprints as Topic/trends ; Psychometrics/methods ; Scholarly Communication/trends ; Surveys and Questionnaires |
| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2021-06-21 |
| Publishing country | United States |
| Document type | Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
| ISSN | 1932-6203 |
| ISSN (online) | 1932-6203 |
| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0244529 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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