Title |
Data Publications Correlate with Citation Impact
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Published in |
Frontiers in Neuroscience, September 2016
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DOI | 10.3389/fnins.2016.00419 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Florian Leitner, Concha Bielza, Sean L. Hill, Pedro Larrañaga |
Abstract |
Neuroscience and molecular biology have been generating large datasets over the past years that are reshaping how research is being conducted. In their wake, open data sharing has been singled out as a major challenge for the future of research. We conducted a comparative study of citations of data publications in both fields, showing that the average publication tagged with a data-related term by the NCBI MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) curators achieves a significantly larger citation impact than the average in either field. We introduce a new metric, the data article citation index (DAC-index), to identify the most prolific authors among those data-related publications. The study is fully reproducible from an executable Rmd (R Markdown) script together with all the citation datasets. We hope these results can encourage authors to more openly publish their data. |
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Country | Count | As % |
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United Kingdom | 6 | 24% |
Germany | 3 | 12% |
United States | 2 | 8% |
Australia | 2 | 8% |
Canada | 1 | 4% |
Greece | 1 | 4% |
Switzerland | 1 | 4% |
Austria | 1 | 4% |
Unknown | 8 | 32% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 19 | 76% |
Scientists | 5 | 20% |
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 4% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Germany | 1 | 3% |
Canada | 1 | 3% |
Unknown | 34 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Researcher | 9 | 25% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 19% |
Student > Master | 4 | 11% |
Librarian | 3 | 8% |
Lecturer | 2 | 6% |
Other | 7 | 19% |
Unknown | 4 | 11% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 6 | 17% |
Social Sciences | 6 | 17% |
Computer Science | 5 | 14% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 8% |
Neuroscience | 3 | 8% |
Other | 7 | 19% |
Unknown | 6 | 17% |