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

By

Baker, Edward
Vincent, Sarah

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2019-10-30

Original Publication

Biodiversity data journal

Volume

7

Pages

1--2

Subjects

acoustic vouchers , bioacoustics , open data , reproducibility , sound libraries

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft Publishers [2013]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.7.e36783
eLocator: e36783

 

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.