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Social scientists' satisfaction with data reuse
Author(s) -
Faniel Ixchel M.,
Kriesberg Adam,
Yakel Elizabeth
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.903
H-Index - 145
eISSN - 2330-1643
pISSN - 2330-1635
DOI - 10.1002/asi.23480
Subject(s) - credibility , documentation , reuse , computer science , data quality , trustworthiness , quality (philosophy) , information quality , data science , information system , engineering , internet privacy , political science , metric (unit) , philosophy , operations management , electrical engineering , epistemology , law , programming language , waste management
Much of the recent research on digital data repositories has focused on assessing either the trustworthiness of the repository or quantifying the frequency of data reuse. Satisfaction with the data reuse experience, however, has not been widely studied. Drawing from the information systems and information science literature, we developed a model to examine the relationship between data quality and data reusers' satisfaction. Based on a survey of 1,480 journal article authors who cited I nter‐ U niversity C onsortium for P olitical and S ocial R esearch ( ICPSR ) data in published papers from 2008–2012, we found several data quality attributes—completeness, accessibility, ease of operation, and credibility—had significant positive associations with data reusers' satisfaction. There was also a significant positive relationship between documentation quality and data reusers' satisfaction.