Sharing intermediate datasets from systematic reviews

Thousands of systematic reviews are published every year. To conduct a systematic review,researchers spend hours of work extracting data from and about the individual papers that areincluded. This step often leads to the production of spreadsheets with structured data andmetadata about scientific publications, which are the basis for later steps in the project. Thesedatasets will often remain hidden in local folders and unavailable, despite the time invested inproducing them and their potential value. We argue that this is a great opportunity, where asmall amount of additional planning to make these intermediate datasets publicly available canbe valuable to the scientific community, while also allowing authors to be cited and recognized.