A survey of researchers’ methods sharing practices and priorities

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Introduction

Materials and Methods

Data analysis

Ethical considerations

Results

Current methods sharing practices

Attitudes toward methods sharing

Importance and satisfaction scores of methods sharing goals

Value of product or service features

Discussion

The public sharer’s perspective

Potential opportunities to support researchers

Limitations

Conclusions

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

Marcel LaFlamme, James Harney, and Iain Hrynaszkiewicz are employees of PLOS.

Author Contributions

Marcel LaFlamme conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

James Harney conceived and designed the experiments, analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Iain Hrynaszkiewicz conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Human Ethics

The following information was supplied relating to ethical approvals (i.e., approving body and any reference numbers):

The Heartland Institutional Review Board granted approval of this study (07092023-494).

Data Availability

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The survey questionnaire and deidentified data are available at Figshare: LaFlamme, Marcel; Harney, James; Hrynaszkiewicz, Iain (2022). Data from: A survey of researchers’ methods sharing practices and priorities. figshare. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.21334896.v2

Funding

The authors received no funding for this work.

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