A sequential route of data and document qualities, satisfaction and motivations on researchers' data reuse intentions
ISSN: 0022-0418
Article publication date: 27 August 2021
Issue publication date: 23 March 2022
Abstract
Purpose
This study examined how the qualities of both data and documents of existing datasets can contribute to researchers' satisfaction of data reuse, and how it affects their data reuse intentions mediated by attitudinal and normative beliefs of data reuse.
Design/methodology/approach
A combined theoretical framework integrating IS (Information Systems) Success Model and the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) was utilized to develop the research model of researchers' data reuse, which was evaluated using structural equation modeling based on 820 survey responses from STEM disciplines in the US.
Findings
This study found that both data and document qualities significantly contribute to researchers' satisfaction of data reuse. Then, their satisfaction significantly increases perceived usefulness and subjective norm of data reuse, and it decreases perceived risk associated with data reuse. Finally, both perceived usefulness and subjective norm significantly increases their data reuse intentions.
Research limitations/implications
The combined theoretical framework integrating IS success model and TPB provides a new theoretical lens in understanding researchers' data reuse behaviors affected by the qualities of both data and documents.
Practical implications
The findings of this study provided several practical implications in promoting and facilitating researchers' data reuse behaviors by improving data and document qualities of existing datasets.
Originality/value
This is one of the initial studies focusing on the roles of data and document qualities in researchers' data reuse, and it provides a systematic view of how data and document qualities influence researchers' data reuse mediated by their satisfaction of data reuse and attitudinal and normative beliefs.
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Acknowledgements
The author would like to acknowledge the ProQuest Pivot for allowing me to use its Community of Scientists (CoS) Scholar Database in recruiting the survey participants.
Note: Both survey data and instrument have been made publicly available via Open ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) and can be accessed at https://doi.org/10.3886/E100404V1.
Citation
Kim, Y. (2022), "A sequential route of data and document qualities, satisfaction and motivations on researchers' data reuse intentions", Journal of Documentation, Vol. 78 No. 3, pp. 709-727. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-02-2021-0044
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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