ShareScore · ConductScience
A free service for shared knowledge
Knowledge people can build on
Shared knowledge is a public good. ShareScore helps people make research easier to understand and use again, so its value can reach beyond the team that created it.
A message from the founder
For Anthem judgesShuhan He, MD, on why sharing knowledge is a service to the public.
Founder, ConductScience · Emergency physician and researcher
2.36×
odds of later reuse
Per 10-point higher score
Across 154,569 records
01Recognize the work
Science rewards the published paper. The work that makes its underlying information useful to someone else often goes unrecognized. ShareScore gives that care a measure.
What gets credit
What helps others
Give people credit for work others can use.
02The barrier
When a study's instructions or permissions are missing, someone else has to start by guessing. Clear information lets people check the work and decide whether they can use it.
Shared, but hard to use
final_final_v2.csv
The next researcher is left guessing.
Useful to someone else
Enough information to build on
03What we built
ConductScience built ShareScore in response to a National Institutes of Health challenge: give people credit for sharing research in ways that others can understand and use.
01 · SHARE
Clear information
Can someone else understand and use this work?
02 · S-Index
Credit for sharing
Who consistently prepares work others can build on?
03 · S-Impact
Use by others
What did later work build on?
04Open rules
ShareScore asks 25 practical questions about whether shared information is useful to someone else. The rules are public, so anyone can inspect what earns credit.
68 / 100
Example: 17 checks × 4 points
Stewardship
Harmonization
Availability and rights
Reusability
Engagement
05A practical next step
A score should help someone take the next step. ShareScore shows what is missing and explains each result, so clearer sharing becomes something people can work toward.
01
Understand
See how ready a record is for someone else to use.
02
Check
Follow each result back to public information.
03
Improve
Find the missing details before sharing again.
A real research record, with its score and the information behind it.
06Evidence of public value
Better-prepared research was more likely to be used in later work. That is the public purpose: helping knowledge travel beyond the people who first created it.
Reuse means a later research work named the original data as its source.
2.36×
Odds of later reuse
Per 10-point higher ShareScore · 154,569 records
07Value over time
The link with later use held across different kinds of research and through five years of follow-up. Better sharing can give knowledge a longer useful life.
Odds of later reuse, per 10-point higher ShareScore
Within 1 year
2.37×
Within 3 years
2.35×
Within 5 years
2.43×
Results accounted for differences between fields.
After accounting for research field
2.72×
08A habit worth recognizing
People with a stronger sharing record went on to share more work that met the standard. Recognizing that care can help useful sharing become a habit.
2.19×
Rate of later work meeting the sharing standard
For twice the earlier S-Index; later work scored SHARE 48 or above.
Higher scores were linked to plans to share study information and ways to access it.
Plans to share
26,755 yes responses
Ways to get the information
6,659 access routes
ClinicalTrials.gov: each 10-point higher SHARE score was linked to roughly twice the odds on both measures.
09Free public access
Anyone can inspect the same public rules and results. ShareScore brings information from 25 research archives into one place, helping people look beyond their own field or institution.
Counts: ShareScore 0.9.0, September 8, 2026. Map: the published author-location data.
View evidence ↗10Make sharing easier
The places where people share research shaped scores more than individual researchers did. Clearer forms and better guidance can help every team leave something more useful behind.
What explained differences in scores
4,518 researchers · 28,085 scored records
11Independent recognition
The National Institutes of Health selected ShareScore as one of three winning approaches to better data sharing. Seven finalist teams included researchers from Harvard, MIT, Yale, and other institutions.
NIH presentation · 12:35
See the work presented at NIH.
12A public good
When others can understand and use research, its value can reach further. ShareScore makes that work visible, gives it credit, and keeps the rules open to everyone.
Figures checked September 18, 2026. Higher scores predicted later use; the study did not test whether ShareScore caused it.
