Anonymous survey data are available in OSF at https://osf.io/zyec9/ (ref. 80). The wiki of this repository describes cases where we either censored or grouped data to hide rare responses before making data open. Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG) data can be obtained freely for download at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/microsoft-academic-graph/. Web of Science (WoS) data can be obtained for a licensing fee from Clarivate https://clarivate.com/. Our open data include anonymous codes that link anonymous survey responses with the anonymous, aggregated bibliometric model (specifically, aggregated cosine similarity metrics). We cannot provide non-aggregated versions of these linked data, including links to MAG/WoS data, as that would involve breaching the terms of informed consent (as specified by our IRB) by making it possible to infer participant identities.

Analysis scripts (in R) are available in OSF at https://osf.io/zyec9/ (ref. 80).

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