Data Availability Statements in Tampere University Publications, 2020-2021

2,085 peer-reviewed articles from Tampere University researchers in 2020 and 2021 were analyzed for Data Availability Statements (DAS). The dataset, created by Kaisa Kylmälä, records the presence, location, and content of DAS, including details on data openness and restrictions. It also includes journal and publication information extracted from the TUNICRIS system.

Use Cases

• Analyze the prevalence of Data Availability Statements based on the binary existence indicator for each article.
• Study the relationship between data openness and journal characteristics based on the recorded DAS content.
• Examine the typical location of Data Availability Statements within scientific articles based on the recorded placement data.
• Investigate potential restrictions on data use mentioned in Data Availability Statements based on the recorded content categories.

Strengths

• Analysis covers 2,085 articles, representing over 42% of the 4,922 total publications from the specified years.
• Data collection involved manual, article-by-article inspection for Data Availability Statements, suggesting detailed annotation.
• Includes related published research (article and slides) providing context and methodology.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Tampere University faculty information has been removed from the dataset, limiting some analysis dimensions.

Provenance

Source

Tampere University publications extracted from TUNICRIS.

Collection Method

A random sample of 40% of 4,922 publications was taken, resulting in 2,085 manually analyzed articles for Data Availability Statements.

Time Range

2020-2021