DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15727586
title: A Sharing Practices Review of the Visual Search and Eye Movements Literature Reveals Recommendations for our Field and Others

description: # Find It, Access It, Reuse It Scorecard




 




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# Find It - Making Shared Outputs More Findable Online #




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  - Title: A Sharing Practices Review of the Visual Search and Eye Movements Literature Reveals Recommendations for our Field and Others




  - Abstract: The sharing of outputs from scientific research is an important endeavor; one that is required at an increasing rate by funders and publishers alike. Here, we catalogued and examined data sharing practices, using our own field of visual search and eye movement behavior as an example. To find outputs from scientific research, we conducted two searches: a Literature Search and a Repository Search. Overall, we found that researchers in our field generally shared outputs that enabled others to analytically reproduce published results. It was rare for researchers to share outputs that enabled direct replications of their work, and it was also rare for researchers to share raw data that would enable secondary data analyses. Comparing the results of our two searches of the literature, we found that a lack of metadata substantially reduced the rates at which outputs could be found and used. Based on our findings, we present a set of recommendations summarized in our ‘Find It – Access It – Reuse It’ scorecard. The scorecard is intended to assist researchers in sharing outputs in a manner that will enable others to better find, access, and understand them – and this includes researchers in other fields beyond our own.




  - Authors: Hayward J. Godwin, Haden Dewis, Peter T. Darch, Michael C. Hout, Daniel Ernst, Philippa Broadbent, Megan Papesh, & Jeremy M. Wolfe




  - Journal: Behaviour Research Methods




  - DOI: N/A




  - Publication Status: Published 




  - Publication Year: 2025




 




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# Access It - Checking that Outputs can be Accessed #




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Access It:




  - Where have the scientific outputs been shared online?: https://osf.io/5tmey/ , https://figshare.com/projects/A_Sharing_Practices_Review_of_the_Visual_Search_and_Eye_Movements_Literature_Reveals_Recommendations_for_our_Field_and_Others/253979 , https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15731333




  - Has the web link to the outputs been checked?: Yes




 




 




 




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# Reuse It - Understanding how the Outputs are Reusable #




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Reuse It:




  - Has a guide to the outputs been included?: Yes (Analysis Code)




  - Has a guide for any shared datasets been included?: Yes (Analysis Code, Database)




  - Has the raw data been shared?: Yes (Analysis Code)




  - Has the code for running the experiment been shared?: N/A




  - Have you shared the results of analyses that were conducted?: Yes (Analysis Code)




  - Have you shared the code for deriving those results from the data?: Yes (Analysis Code)




  - Have all outputs been shared in an openly accessible format where possible?: Yes (Analysis Code, Database)




 




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