Initial insight into three modes of data sharing: Prevalence of primary reuse, data integration and dataset release in research articles

While data sharing has received research interest in recent times, its real status remains unclear, owing to ambiguous concept. To understand the current of sharing, this study examined primary reuse, integration, and dataset release as actual practices sharing. A total 963 articles, chosen from those published 2018 registered Web Science global citation database, were manually checked. Existing reused mode integration (13.3%) frequently they for reuse (12.1%). Dataset was least common (9.0%). The results show variation indicate need standardization description articles based on thorough registration expansion public archives close loop that virtuous cycle data.