Biodiversity Data Journal (Oct 2019)

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

  • Ed Baker,
  • Sarah Vincent

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.7.e36783
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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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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