Pubblicazioni scientifiche e dati della ricerca: analisi comparata dei comportamenti dei ricercatori rispetto all'esercizio VQR -- Direzione Performance, Assicurazione Qualità, Valutazione e Politiche di Open Science Università degli Studi di Milano

The report analyses the research data publication practices adopted by researchers at the University of Milan in the context of the Research Quality Assessment (VQR) 2020-2024. Based on 6,389 responses collected at the time of submission of research outputs, 106 cases were selected and analysed, as they were the only records that provided detailed information on the repositories used to deposit the data.

The first part of the document presents a comparative list of 30 generalist repositories (Dataverse, Zenodo, GitHub, etc.) and disciplinary repositories (ProteomeXchange, Dryad, EMBL-EBI, NCBI, EGA, etc.), highlighting their frequency of use, disciplinary scope and reasons for selection. The second section examines repository use by UNIMI department, focusing on biomedical sciences, engineering, social sciences and humanities. The third section reinterprets the analysis according to ANVUR disciplinary areas (01-14), showing, for example, how area 05 (Biological Sciences) combines generalist and specialist solutions, while area 14 (Political and Social Sciences) predominantly uses Dataverse.

The conclusions highlight:

• the prevalence of Dataverse (20% of deposits), Zenodo (17%) and GitHub (8.5%) among the cases considered;
• the different quality (in terms of FAIRness) of datasets uploaded to certified repositories (Dataverse UNIMI) versus those on generalist platforms (Zenodo);
• the need to strengthen training and support for data management in a FAIR perspective to ensure findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability.

Data are available at this link:  https://doi.org/10.13130/RD_UNIMI/VLVF4Z