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Over half of the journals in the representative sample had issued statements on websites encouraging authors to make the data underlying published research, generally available to the academic community, though only a handful of journals make such sharing mandatory. Thus, while the importance of data sharing is well recognized by journals in the Education field, a sizeable minority seems not to have taken a stand on this issue. The second issue related to the efficacy of the positive stance taken by journals, in eliciting the desired response from authors, leading to the sharing of their data. This was probed in a limited, mainly qualitative, survey of the authors of papers published in journals that encouraged data sharing through their websites. It was found that not a single author had made data available \u2013 indeed, some authors were even unaware of the journal\u2019s policy on this matter. Thus, journals\u2019 well-intentioned procedures to encourage greater data sharing are seen to be markedly ineffective. Two main sets of reasons were offered to justify author reticence to data share: either authors did not regard it as being in their interest or data sharing was seen to be inappropriate or not possible for the data set in question. However, these fears relating to engaging in data sharing may not necessarily present insurmountable barriers to its wider adoption, as measures are available to circumvent, at least partially, or to meliorate their effect.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3233\/efi-230007","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,12,6]],"date-time":"2023-12-06T11:56:32Z","timestamp":1701863792000},"page":"179-193","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Data sharing in academic publications: The case of education journals"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"40","author":[{"given":"Zehorit","family":"Dadon-Golan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Hemdat College of Education and School of Education, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel"}]},{"given":"Adrian","family":"Ziderman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Economics Department, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel"}]}],"member":"179","reference":[{"issue":"1","key":"10.3233\/EFI-230007_ref1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"61","DOI":"10.1177\/1556264617744121","article-title":"Examining data repository guidelines for qualitative data sharing","volume":"13","author":"Antes","year":"2018","journal-title":"Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics"},{"key":"10.3233\/EFI-230007_ref2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s11024-023-09487-y"},{"key":"10.3233\/EFI-230007_ref3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1186\/s12889-023-15035-w"},{"issue":"4","key":"10.3233\/EFI-230007_ref4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"e0230416","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0230416","article-title":"The citation advantage of linking publications to research data","volume":"15","author":"Colavizza","year":"2020","journal-title":"PLoS One"},{"issue":"2","key":"10.3233\/EFI-230007_ref5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"67","DOI":"10.18352\/lq.10149","article-title":"Sharing data increases citations","volume":"26","author":"Drachen","year":"2016","journal-title":"LIBER Quarterly: The Journal of the Association of European Research Libraries"},{"issue":"1","key":"10.3233\/EFI-230007_ref6","first-page":"1","article-title":"Data sharing in educational science","volume":"7","author":"Logan","year":"2021","journal-title":"AERA Open"},{"issue":"5","key":"10.3233\/EFI-230007_ref7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"643","DOI":"10.1177\/0002764218784991","article-title":"Qualitative data sharing: Data repositories and academic libraries as key partners in addressing challenges","volume":"63","author":"Mannheimer","year":"2019","journal-title":"American Behavioral Scientist"},{"issue":"1","key":"10.3233\/EFI-230007_ref8","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"131","DOI":"10.1177\/2515245917747656","article-title":"Practical tips for ethical data sharing","volume":"1","author":"Meyer","year":"2018","journal-title":"Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science"},{"issue":"1","key":"10.3233\/EFI-230007_ref9","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1086\/695838","article-title":"Data sharing in comparative and international education","volume":"62","author":"Nordtveit","year":"2018","journal-title":"Comparative Education Review"},{"key":"10.3233\/EFI-230007_ref10","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.7717\/peerj.175"},{"key":"10.3233\/EFI-230007_ref11","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"445","DOI":"10.1038\/d41586-019-01506-x","article-title":"Data sharing and how it can benefit your scientific career","volume":"569","author":"Popkin","year":"2019","journal-title":"Nature"},{"issue":"5","key":"10.3233\/EFI-230007_ref12","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"675","DOI":"10.1111\/bjet.12091","article-title":"Data-sharing","volume":"44","author":"Rushby","year":"2013","journal-title":"British Journal of Educational Technology"},{"key":"10.3233\/EFI-230007_ref13","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Tal-Socher, M., & Ziderman, A. 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