Supporting data for: Sharing data from human communities – the importance of understanding the impact of Motivation, Ownership, Vulnerability and Emotions (MOVE - IT)

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Abstract

We conducted a structured review of the literature followed by thematic analysis. Research on research data sharing is published across multiple research domains, making complete overview of existing scholarship difficult to achieve. This prevented us from doing a formal systematic review but rather an overview of different approaches to ethical data sharing from a range of communities. We emphasised transparency in search strategy, selection, and thematic interpretation to generate a rigorous narrative synthesis. We used the Web of Science (WoS) database to search for relevant literature on research data ethics across research domains. This search provided an overview of the current landscape and we supplemented it with literature from reference lists and by knowledge of the authors. Three searches were conducted in May 2025 and updated in May 2026 resulting in 715 results in 2025, and an additional 54 in 2026. We then browsed abstracts and titles excluding non-relevant hits, resulting in 65 papers from the original search, and additionally 15 from 2025 and 2026. Additionally we added 21 articles based on references to relevant papers and relevant articles known to the authors, resulting in 101 articles. A second screening which included a more detailed reading of the papers limited this to 53 documents on ethical aspects of data sharing from human subjects. Excluded documents were either not relevant to our research question or did not report on findings from empirical research. We conducted qualitative thematic analysis of the selected literature to identify how concepts including privacy, motivations, emotions, ownership and vulnerability were addressed. And further identify existing guidance on governance, principles, and guidelines, and where they fall short in addressing relational and human factors such as motivation, ownership, vulnerability, and emotions. This datasett contains the bibliographies of the 101 and the 53 documents, and the codes and frequency in the material. In addition illustrations used in the paper are uploaded as .png files

Authors 8

1. Live Kvale

   University of Oslo

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   University of Oslo

2. Alison Specht

   The University of Queensland · Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network

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   Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network, the University of Queensland

3. Louise M. Bezuidenhout Aachen

   Leiden University

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   Leiden University

4. Burçak Başbuğ Erkan

   Middle East Technical University

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   Middle East Technical University

5. Norman Mukasa
6. Virginia Murray

   University College London

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   University College London

7. Nidhi Nagabhatla

   United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies

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   UNU CRIS Belgium

8. Ingvill Constanze Ødegaard