Dans le JAMA Psychiatry de janvier 2017, un viewpoint intitulé "Incentivizing data sharing and colaboration in medical research — The S-Index" nous incite à partager les données sources des recherches. Le début du viewpoint est :
Sharing research data is a widely embraced ideal of academic medicine. Providing broad access to research data has the potential to stimulate progress in medical science and improve public health by revealing previously overlooked critical information and reducing redundant work. Making data available to peers also encourages researchers to improve the quality of their data collection, helps uncover errors, and increases the reproducibility and confidence of findings. In addition to economic benefits of leveraging data collection costs, sharing data upholds the moral imperative to honor the sacrifices of research participants.
Tous les avantages du partage des données sont bien présentés,en admettant que le partage des données est laborieux et coûteux. Dès 2003 les NIH aux USA ont commencé à suggérer le partage des données. Ils ont été suivis par de nombreuses organisations, par la création de registres de données sources et le mouvement s'amplifie. Les auteurs proposent un index de partage des données :
The S-index would measure the number and impact of peer reviewed publications in which investigators have shared their data with other research groups. Publications that use shared data, but do not include the investigators sharing their data as authors, would contribute to their S-index. For each investigator sharing data, publications using their shared data would be ranked in descending order by number of citations and the value of their S-index would be the number of papers (N) in this list with N or more citations.
Les auteurs sont des psychiatres de Columbia University, New York. L'idée est bonne. Des bases comme Medline pourraient calculer le S-Index, mais il faut commencer !!!
