Data Publications Correlate with Citation Impact.
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.
Computational Intelligence Group, Department for Artificial Intelligence, Universidad Politécnica de MadridMadrid, Spain; Data Catalytics S.L.Madrid, Spain.
Florian
F
Leitner
Computational Intelligence Group, Department for Artificial Intelligence, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Madrid, Spain.
Concha
C
Bielza
Blue Brain Project, Campus Biotech Geneva, Switzerland.
Sean L
SL
Hill
Computational Intelligence Group, Department for Artificial Intelligence, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Madrid, Spain.
Pedro
P
Larrañaga
DAC-index; citations; data article citation index; data publications; data sharing; open data
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