Sharing GWAS summary statistics results in more citations

Guillermo Reales; Chris Wallace

doi:10.1038/s42003-023-04497-8

Sharing GWAS summary statistics results in more citations

Commun Biol. 2023 Jan 28;6(1):116. doi: 10.1038/s42003-023-04497-8.

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Guillermo Reales^{1

2}, Chris Wallace^{3

4

5}

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¹ Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease (CITIID), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. gr440@cam.ac.uk.
² Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. gr440@cam.ac.uk.
³ Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology and Infectious Disease (CITIID), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
⁴ Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
⁵ MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Abstract

Rates of sharing of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) summary statistics are historically low, limiting potential for scientific discovery. Here we show, using GWAS Catalog data, that GWAS papers that share data get on average 81.8% more citations, an effect that is sustained over time.

Sharing GWAS summary statistics results in more citations

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