A deafening silence: a lack of data and reproducibility in published bioacoustics research?

Baker, E; Vincent, Sarah

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Authors

Baker, E

Vincent, Sarah

Issue date

2019-10-30

Submitted date

2019-06-04

Subject Terms

bioacoustics
open data
reproducibility
sound libraries
acoustic vouchers

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Abstract

A study of 100 papers from five journals that make use of bioacoustic recordings shows that only a minority (21%) deposit any of the recordings in a repository, supplementary materials section or a personal website. This lack of deposition hinders re-use of the raw data by other researchers, prevents the reproduction of a project's analyses and confirmation of its findings and impedes progress within the broader bioacoustics community. We make some recommendations for researchers interested in depositing their data.

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Baker E, Vincent S (2019) A deafening silence: a lack of data and reproducibility in published bioacoustics research? Biodiversity Data Journal 7: e36783. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.7.e36783

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Journal Article

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Copyright © Baker E, Vincent S. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. The attached file is the published version of the article.
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1314-2836

EISSN

1314-2828

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Life sciences

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