OpenUP survey on researchers' current perceptions and practices in peer review, impact measurement and dissemination of research results

OpenUP project (http://openup-h2020.eu/) conducted a survey to capture current perceptions and practices in peer review, dissemination of research results and impact measurement among European researchers.  The survey was coducted between 20 January and 23 February 2017.  It consisted of four sections. The first section asked a series of questions on the respondents' scientific discipline, career stage, gender and other characteristics. The following sections asked a series of questions on peer review practices, dissemination of research results and impact measurement/use of altmetrics. The questionnaire was collaboratively prepared by the OpenUP consortium. 

The survey was implemented via surveygizmo tool (https://www.surveygizmo.com/). Invitations to participate were sent to a random sample of researchers from arXiv, Pubmed and RePEc. The OpenUP team mined researchers' contact details from these platforms.  The OpenUP project team made efforts to further boost the repondent sample for certain underrepresented areas through the DARIAH website, THESIS network, EURODOC, AIMS portal, the Parthenos community and other channels. The survey targeted researchers from the EU-28, Switzerland and Norway. The goal was to get around 1,000 responses. In total, there were 976 completed response and completion rate was 72.4%. 

The attached documents include the questionnaire and the dataset. In the dataset (cvs file) the top row contains numbered questions that correspond to the numberring in the questionnaire (word file). The data was exported as an excel file, anonymised by creating respondent IDs and IP data were deleted. The file was then converted to CSV.