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Articles | Volume 7, issue 1
Articles | Volume 7, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-7-45-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-7-45-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 7, issue 1
Research article
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25 Feb 2025
Research article |  | 25 Feb 2025

The need for fission-track data transparency and sharing

Murat T. Tamer, Ling Chung, Richard A. Ketcham, and Andrew J. W. Gleadow

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We present the first new image-based study to reveal how choices made by different analysts affect the results obtained by fission-track analysis. Participants analyzed an identical image dataset with varying grain quality. Experienced analysts tend to select lower numbers of unsuitable grains and conduct lower numbers of invalid length measurements. Fission-track studies need image data repositories, teaching modules, guidelines, an open science culture, and new approaches for calibration.

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