Jan Dul

1 INTRODUCTION The ever-expanding volume of available data in today's research landscape presents an intriguing paradox. While the drive for novel data collection remains undiminished, the benefits of reusing existing data are increasingly being acknowledged. Not only does data reuse ensure efficient validation and replication of earlier findings, it also allows for answering extended or novel research questions (Köhler and Cortina, 2023).

According to David Hume’s (1777) philosophy of causation: We may define a cause to be an object, followed by another, and where all the objects, similar to the first, are followed by objects, similar to the second. Or in other words, where, if the first had not been, the second never had existed. This notion of causality can be interpreted as having two distinct logical parts (Abbott, 1974; Goertz, 2003; Lewis, 1973; Pizzi, 1993).