Factors Influencing Data Sharing: Literature Review

To identify factors influencing sharing of research data.
All scientific papers on factors influencing research data sharing indexed in EBSCO, Science Direct, JSTORE, PubMed, Scopus, WOS and Google Scholar were analyzed.
The most important factors in data sharing are organization and research sponsors compulsion, organizational support, data management plan, existence of data repositories, data and metadata standards and interoperability, number of publications, work experience, age, altruism, privacy, confidentiality, national and international requirements, work perceived benefit, informed consent from the participants, motivated mechanisms like citations, academic recognition, more visibility and formal acknowledgment from data providers.
Added value of data makes it necessary for stakeholders to provide required infrastructures for research data accessibility. Efficient data curation is the best way to optimize and fund on data.