title: How open science helps researchers succeed.
abstract: Open access, open data, open source and other open scholarship practices are growing in popularity and necessity. However, widespread adoption of these practices has not yet been achieved. One reason is that researchers are uncertain about how sharing their work will affect their careers. We review literature demonstrating that open research is associated with increases in citations, media attention, potential collaborators, job opportunities and funding opportunities. These findings are evidence that open research practices bring significant benefits to researchers relative to more traditional closed practices.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
authors.forename: Erin C
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-9430-5221
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: McKiernan
authors.affiliation: Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States.
authors.forename: Philip E
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-7618-7292
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Bourne
authors.affiliation: Population Health and Reproduction, University of California, Davis, Davis, United States.
authors.forename: C Titus
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.affiliation: Laura and John Arnold Foundation, Houston, United States.
authors.forename: Stuart
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Buck
authors.affiliation: BioMed Central, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Amye
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-3030-8001
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kenall
authors.affiliation: CrossRef, Oxford, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States.
authors.forename: Damon
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: McDougall
authors.affiliation: Center for Open Science, Charlottesville, United States.
authors.forename: Brian A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Nosek
authors.affiliation: Berkeley Institute for Data Science, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States.
authors.forename: Karthik
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ram
authors.affiliation: Center for Open Science, Charlottesville, United States.
authors.forename: Courtney K
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Soderberg
authors.affiliation: Center for Open Science, Charlottesville, United States.|Department of Engineering and Society, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States.
authors.forename: Jeffrey R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Spies
authors.affiliation: Mozilla Science Lab, Mozilla Foundation, New York, United States.
authors.forename: Kaitlin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Thaney
authors.affiliation: Gesmer Updegrove LLP, Boston, United States.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Updegrove
authors.affiliation: Center for Environmental Research, Education, and Outreach, Washington State University, Pullman, United States.|Information School, University of Washington, Seattle, United States.
authors.forename: Kara H
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-5125-4188
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Woo
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States.
authors.forename: Tal
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yarkoni
mesh_terms: D022126:Access to Information; D066295:Open Access Publishing; D012106:Research / Q000639:trends*; D012108:Research Personnel / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: none; open access; open data; open science; open source; research