Abstract
The sharing of research data is essential to ensure reproducibility and maximize the impact of public investments in scientific research. Here we describe OpenNeuro, a BRAIN Initiative data archive that provides the ability to openly share data from a broad range of brain imaging data types following the FAIR principles for data sharing. We highlight the importance of the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) standard for enabling effective curation, sharing, and reuse of data. The archive presently shares more than 600 datasets including data from more than 20,000 participants, comprising multiple species and measurement modalities and a broad range of phenotypes. The impact of the shared data is evident in a growing number of published reuses, currently totalling more than 150 publications. We conclude by describing plans for future development and integration with other ongoing open science efforts.
Competing Interest Statement
Author EM is owner and author NH is employee of Squishymedia, which has a contract from Stanford University to develop OpenNeuro.
Footnotes
We have revised the manuscript to address reviewer comments on the submitted version. We have also updated the data to be current as of 10/9/2021, and have improved the readability of Figure 2.
