Academic data publishing is the biggest ROI in research today
A decade of running Figshare says the big win was simply getting data onto the internet. The next ten years are about making it usable.
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FAIR data
Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable — and the gap between data that technically meets FAIR and data anyone can actually reuse.
Academic Research Data. Is it being cited?
Daily citation updates across Figshare show which research outputs actually attract citations, and why datasets still trail papers badly.
Academic Data Curation: Who checks? Who Pays? How Much?
The research publishing system works. We get new drugs and new breakthrough discoveries every year. The goal of FAIR research data is to optimise this.