Mercè Crosas, IQSS, Harvard University @mercecrosas
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Crosas, Gautier, Karcher, Kirilova, Otalora, Schwartz, 2018. Data Policies of highly-ranked social science journals
More than 50% of the top 50 journals in anthropology, economics, psychology, and political sciences have data policies that either encourage or require to share the data associated with the article.
Hosted at Harvard Dataverse repository (80 journal dataverses)
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Funding by Helmsley Charitable Trust, with focus on biomedical data, in collaboration with Piotrek Sliz
Funded by National Science Foundation,
in collaboration with Latanya Sweeney
Standardize data security and access levels
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in collaboration with Harvard Privacy Tools Project
Funded by Sloan Foundation, in collaboration with CodeOcean
Funded by Sloan Foundation, in collaboration with Margo Seltzer
Funded by Sloan Foundation, in collaboration with the ODUM institute at UNC Chapel Hill
Funded by IMLS
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