Biological Scientists' Data Sharing Survey

This research examines the factors affecting biological scientists' data sharing. The online survey was conducted with the scientists who are registered as biological scientists in the CoS scholar database. Among 90 thousand scientists registered under the main discipline of biological sciences in the U.S., we randomly selected a total of 8,000 potential survey participants. Throughout the survey distribution, 2,014 messages were returned or were not delivered correctly due to invalid email addresses or spam filters. Therefore, a total of 5,986 messages were delivered to any potential survey participants. Among those responses, we excluded any responses missing more than 20% of answers in the online survey; therefore, we only have 680 valid responses.