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 literatures, we develop 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 Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (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. Kriesberg, A. and Yakel, E. (2015). Social scientists' satisfaction with data reuse.
REF conducted a larger survey with 1,480 journal authors who have cited research data sets from the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).
Social scientists' satisfaction with data reuse
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol.
J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol.
Computer Science