PLOS Redefining Publishing: Survey Data from 2025-2026 Open Science Report

Public Library of Science (PLOS) provides survey data supporting its 2026 report 'Redefining Publishing: Practical pathways to open science'. The dataset comprises anonymized responses from three surveys conducted in 2025, totaling 1.2 MB of CSV and PDF files. Funding was received from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Use Cases

• Analyze researcher perceptions of metadata and quality control reports based on the R10a survey.
• Study the adoption and understanding of the CRediT authorship taxonomy based on the R11b survey.
• Investigate demographic and career-stage trends in open science practices based on grouped variables like region and years since degree.

Strengths

• Includes three distinct surveys (R10a, R11b, R13c) with separate data files and survey instruments.
• Data is anonymized with open responses removed to preserve participant privacy.
• Funding sources and methodological details for participant recruitment are explicitly documented.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Open response questions are excluded from the provided CSV files.

Provenance

Source

Public Library of Science (PLOS)

Collection Method

Data collected via online surveys administered on platforms like Alchemer to researchers from the PLOS User Panel.

Time Range

Surveys were administered in September 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-27 20:40:04; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Region data is included, based on the country of the participant's research institution.