A scientometric study of data sharing literature

data sharing is one of the critical drivers of science advancement. ICTs and Open Access movement have significant role in data sharing. This study, is reviewed the ratio of articles, subject categories, institutions and countries contributed to data sharing literature. This research used quantitative approach with scientometric techniques and softwares to analyze data sharing literature. Results showed that during recent years, the number of articles on data sharing increased dramatically. The rate of these articles shows that medical sciences categories, biological sciences and library and information sciences increased considerably, United States produced more than half of the articles, all articles written by about 27000 authors from 6742 institutions from 140 countries. 3500 journals published the articles. These articles indexed in 231 subject categories. The first 20 subject categories indexed more than 90% of the articles. It seems due to data sharing functions and benefits in advancing science and attention of scientific communities to this subject and multidisciplinary context of data sharing, in near future, more and more researchers and scientific communities will tend to data sharing, and this matter will be needed more attention to technical, cultural and structural infrastructures on behalf of data sharing stakeholders.