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Vines et al. 2014 — The Availability of Research Data Declines Rapidly with Article Age

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Source citation

Vines, T.H. et al. "The Availability of Research Data Declines Rapidly with Article Age." *Current Biology* 24(1), 2014.

Citation: Vines, T.H. et al. "The Availability of Research Data Declines Rapidly with Article Age." Current Biology 24(1), 2014.

Type: Peer-reviewed empirical study. Method: Direct contact with corresponding authors of 516 ecology and evolutionary biology papers, sampled at two-year intervals 1991-2011, requesting raw morphological data underlying the publications.

Key findings used in this graph:

  • 19% of dataset requests delivered (E-0001)
  • ~17%-per-year decline in conditional dataset survival probability (E-0005)
  • Methodology established for subsequent direct-contact replications (E-0002, E-0003, E-0004)

Original whitepaper reference: [1]