Responsible Use of Population Neuroscience Data in the ABCD: Towards Standards of Accountability and Integrity

This editorial focuses on the issue of data misuse that is increasingly evidenced in social media as well as some premiere scientific journals. This issue is of critical importance to open science projects in general, and ABCD in particular, given the broad array of biological, behavioural and environmental information collected on this American sample of 12,000 youth and parents. ABCD data are already widely used with over 1,200 publications and twice as many citations per year as expected (relative citation index based on year, field and journal). However, the adverse consequences of misuse of data and inaccurate interpretation of emergent findings from this precedent setting study may have a profound impact on disadvantaged populations and perpetuate biases and societal injustices.