PLOS Open Science Indicators

This dataset contains article metadata and information about Open Science Indicators for approximately 118,000 research articles published in PLOS from 1 January 2018 to 30 June 2024 and a set of approximately 24,000 comparator articles published in non-PLOS journals. This is the eighth release of this dataset, which will be updated with new versions as newly published content is analysed.
This version of the Open Science Indicators dataset comprises of 3 components. The first, also included in earlier versions of the dataset, focuses on detection of three Open Science practices by analysing the XML of published research articles:

Sharing of research data, in particular data shared in data repositories
Sharing of code
Posting of preprints

The dataset provides data and code generation and sharing rates, the location of shared data and code (whether in Supporting Information or in an online repository). It also provides preprint sharing rates as well as details of the shared preprint, such as publication date, URL and preprint server used. Additional data fields are also provided for each article analysed, such as geographic information (‘Country’) and research topics (‘Discipline’).
The second component, first shared in version 4, contains a fourth Open Science Indicator - detection of protocol sharing. This is presented as a preliminary version of the data. The protocols dataset contains information on whether protocols sharing from the article has been detected and the sources of those protocols (i.e. where the protocol was shared).
The third component, first shared in version 7, contains the fifth Open Science Indicator - detection of Study Registration sharing. The Study Registration dataset contains information on whether the article reports a study registration, the registry it was shared in and where in the article the mention of the registration was detected.
Further information on the methods used to collect and analyse the data can be found in Main Documentation folder for the main OSI dataset, the Preliminary Release for Protocols Indicator folder for protocols or the Preliminary Release for Study Registration Indicator folder for study registrations.
Further information on the principles and requirements for developing Open Science Indicators is available in https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.21640889.

Data folders/files
Main Data Files folder
This folder contains the main OSI dataset files PLOS-Dataset_v8_Sep24.csv and Comparator-Dataset_v8_Sep24.csv, which contain 

descriptive metadata, e.g. article title, publication data, author countries, is taken from the article .xml files
additional information around the Open Science Indicators derived algorithmically, using Natural Language Processing

and the OSI-Summary-statistics_v8_Sep24.xlsx file contains the summary data for both PLOS-Dataset_v8_Sep24.csv and Comparator-Dataset_v8_Sep24.csv.
Main Documentation folder
This file contains documentation related to the main data files. The file OSI-Methods-Statement_v8_Sep24.pdf describes the methods underlying the data collection and analysis. OSI-Column-Descriptions_v3_Dec23.pdf describes the fields used in PLOS-Dataset_v8_Sep24.csv and Comparator-Dataset_v8_Sep24.csv. OSI-Repository-List_v1_Dec22.xlsx lists the repositories and their characteristics used to identify specific repositories in the PLOS-Dataset_v8_Sep24.csv and Comparator-Dataset_v8_Sep24.csv repository fields.
Preliminary Release for Protocols Indicator folder
This folder contains files related to the new Indicator on protocol sharing. The file Protocols-Dataset_Sep23.csv contains data on protocol sharing pertaining to the PLOS and Comparator corpus of articles. The methods for developing this indicator are described in Protocols-Methods-Statement_Sep23.pdf. The Protocols-Column-Headings_Sep23.pdf file described the column headings used in Protocols-Dataset_Sep23.csv. A summary of the protocols dataset is given in Protocols-Summary-Statistics_Sep23.xlsx, which is used within the related blog post https://theplosblog.plos.org/2023/10/measuring-protocol-sharing.

Preliminary Release for Study Registration Indicator folder
This folder contains the files related to the fifth indicator on study registration. The file Study-Registration_Dataset_Jun24.csv contains the data on study registrations for both PLOS and Comparator articles. The methods for developing this indicator are described in Study-Registration-Methods-Statement_Jun24.pdf and the fields used in the dataset are described in Registration-Column-Headings_Jun24.pdf. A summary of the results of study registration are given in Study-Registration-Summary-Statistics_Jun24.xlsx.

Contact details for further information:
Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Director, Open Research Solutions, PLOS, [e-mail] / [e-mail]
Lauren Cadwallader, Open Research Manager, PLOS, [e-mail] / [e-mail]

Acknowledgements:
Thanks to Allegra Pearce, Tim Vines, Asura Enkhbayar and Scott Kerr of DataSeer for contributing to data acquisition and supporting information.

本数据集收录了自2018年1月1日至2024年6月30日间，由PLOS出版的大约118,000篇研究论文的元数据及开放科学指标信息，以及大约24,000篇发表于非PLOS期刊的对比文章集合。这是该数据集的第八次发布，随着新内容的分析，数据集将不断更新迭代。本版开放科学指标数据集包含三个组成部分。首部组成部分，亦包含在早期版本中，旨在通过分析已发布研究论文的XML文件，检测三种开放科学实践：研究数据的共享（尤其是数据仓库中的共享数据）、代码的共享以及预印本的发布。该数据集提供了数据与代码生成及共享的比率，共享数据与代码的位置（是否位于辅助信息或在线仓库中），以及预印本共享的比率及共享预印本的详细信息，例如出版日期、URL和使用的预印本服务器。此外，对于每篇分析的论文，还提供了额外的数据字段，例如地理信息（“国家”）和研究主题（“学科”）。第二部分，首次在版本4中发布，包含第四个开放科学指标——协议共享的检测。该协议数据集包含有关文章中协议共享是否被检测到及其来源（即协议共享的位置）的信息。第三部分，首次在版本7中发布，包含第五个开放科学指标——研究注册共享的检测。研究注册数据集包含有关文章是否报告研究注册、共享的注册机构以及注册提及在文章中的位置的信息。关于收集和分析数据所采用的方法的详细信息，可在主OSI数据集的“主文档”文件夹、协议或研究注册指标文件夹的“初步发布”中找到。关于开发开放科学指标的原则和要求，可在https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.21640889中查阅。数据文件夹/文件包括主数据文件文件夹、主文档文件夹、协议指标初步发布文件夹和研究注册指标初步发布文件夹。联系方式和致谢信息亦随附。