Session A4
Data Citations: Linking Literature to Data and Measuring Impact
Track
- Research Data Management
Venue
- Gereon
10:30-12:30
Chair/Moderator
- Elizabeth Moss
ICPSR
- Hailey Mooney
Michigan State University
Presenters
- Nigel Robinson
Thomson Reuters
- Katarina Boland, Brigitte Mathiak
GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
- Marion Wittenberg, Maarten Hoogerwerf
Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
This session addresses data citations within the context of promoting accessibility and tracking re-use. The ability of data citations to measure re-use by identifying the related literature promises to increase the accessibility and visibility of research data outputs. Citation standards continue to evolve as the scholarly research community moves toward greater levels of data sharing. How are we moving forward to a goal of linking literature to data and measuring impact in the current environment? Nigel Robinson from Thomson Reuters will discuss the Data Citation Index (DCI), including the philosophical motivation for its development and the role of the DCI in promoting metadata and citation standardization, as well as challenges involved in harmonizing metadata from source repositories across the sciences and social sciences. Katarina Boland and Brigitte Mathiak from Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS) will share their efforts to create an algorithm to identify dataset references in the published literature in the current environment where such references lack standardization. Marion Wittenberg and Maarten Hoogerwerf from Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) will discuss work on the NARCIS portal which links publications, research information, and data together as part of the Enhanced Publications projects.