TY - JOUR
T1 - Perceptions and behavior of clinical researchers and research support staff regarding data FAIRification
AU - Kersloot, Martijn G.
AU - Abu-Hanna, Ameen
AU - Cornet, Ronald
AU - Arts, Derk L.
N1 - Funding Information: The authors would like to thank the researchers and research support staff that took the time to respond to our questionnaire. In addition, we would like to thank the stakeholders that were involved with the pre-validation of the questionnaire and the University Medical Centers that distributed the questionnaire among their personnel. Publisher Copyright: © 2022, The Author(s).
PY - 2022/12/1
Y1 - 2022/12/1
N2 - The FAIR Data Principles are being rapidly adopted by many research institutes and funders worldwide. This study aimed to assess the awareness and attitudes of clinical researchers and research support staff regarding data FAIRification. A questionnaire was distributed to researchers and support staff in six Dutch University Medical Centers and Electronic Data Capture platform users. 164 researchers and 21 support staff members completed the questionnaire. 62.8% of the researchers and 81.0% of the support staff are currently undertaking at least some effort to achieve any aspect of FAIR, 11.0% and 23.8%, respectively, address all aspects. Only 46.6% of the researchers add metadata to their datasets, 39.7% add metadata to data elements, and 35.9% deposit their data in a repository. 94.7% of the researchers are aware of the usefulness of their data being FAIR for others and 89.3% are, given the right resources and support, willing to FAIRify their data. Institutions and funders should, therefore, develop FAIRification training and tools and should (financially) support researchers and staff throughout the process.
AB - The FAIR Data Principles are being rapidly adopted by many research institutes and funders worldwide. This study aimed to assess the awareness and attitudes of clinical researchers and research support staff regarding data FAIRification. A questionnaire was distributed to researchers and support staff in six Dutch University Medical Centers and Electronic Data Capture platform users. 164 researchers and 21 support staff members completed the questionnaire. 62.8% of the researchers and 81.0% of the support staff are currently undertaking at least some effort to achieve any aspect of FAIR, 11.0% and 23.8%, respectively, address all aspects. Only 46.6% of the researchers add metadata to their datasets, 39.7% add metadata to data elements, and 35.9% deposit their data in a repository. 94.7% of the researchers are aware of the usefulness of their data being FAIR for others and 89.3% are, given the right resources and support, willing to FAIRify their data. Institutions and funders should, therefore, develop FAIRification training and tools and should (financially) support researchers and staff throughout the process.
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01325-2
DO - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01325-2
M3 - Article
C2 - 35624282
SN - 2052-4463
VL - 9
SP - 241
JO - Scientific Data
JF - Scientific Data
IS - 1
M1 - 241
ER -