Producing connections between research data and publication

Abstract

Most research processes follow a cyclic path; a study concept is formulated, data is collected and analyzed, and the results of the analysis are published. From the published reports, new research questions arise, new data will be collected, and new results will be published, and so forth. Alternatively, old data will be reanalyzed, as the primary researcher seldom has explored everything in the collected data, or researchers from other disciplines, with different research questions, can reuse the data in a new way.