Scooping
Definition: The act of reporting or publishing a novel finding prior to another researcher/team. Survey-based research indicates that fear of being scooped is an important fear-related barrier for data sharing in psychology, and agent-based models suggest that competition for priority harms scientific reliability ( Tiokhin et al. 2021) .
Related terms: Novelty, Open data, Preregistration
Reference: Houtkoop et al. (2018); Laine (2017); Tiokhin et al. (2021)
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